March 1, 2021
CarePay Kenya and Ajua release report on COVID-19 driving digitization of Healthcare in Kenya
CarePay Kenya and Ajua released a report on the acceleration of digitization being driven by Covid-19. Ajua's SMS survey platform covered 4, 345 respondents spread across Kenya on the growing…
February 22, 2021
JLI’s Dr Tobias Rinke de Wit on NTR: ATLAS: Covid-19 in Africa
Last week Prof Tobias Rinke de Wit, Director Research JLI, was on Dutch television program NTR: Atlas discussing his ongoing COVID-19 work in Africa. When the epidemic emerged on the…
February 15, 2021
Health Equity sounds great, but how can we achieve it?
As a term, health equity is broad. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as a society we’ll achieve health equity “when everyone has the opportunity to…
February 1, 2021
Dr Tobias Rinke de Wit in the Volkskrant: “As long as there is Corona in Africa, the whole world is at risk”
The COVID situation in Africa deserves more attention. Even though symptoms of the disease are less severe, the continent will be struck by continued economic and social isolation. Viruses will…
December 17, 2020
RIVM and GGD launch a large-scale study on behavior, psychology and health in the Netherlands.
RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment) and GGD GHOR (the Netherlands Municipal Public Health Services and Medical Assistance in Accidents and Disasters) are conducting a large-scale study on behaviors…
December 15, 2020
A message from Dr Christoph Benn on World AIDS Day 2020
World AIDS Day has been commemorated on December 1 since 1988 but this year is clearly a very special occasion given the dual pandemics of HIV and Sars-CoV-2. UNAIDS has…
November 25, 2020
Digital Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in Health
The digital revolution is rapidly changing the world and will inevitably impact on global health. Risks need to be mitigated and opportunities leveraged. If done well, the digital revolution can…
November 8, 2020
Can a new model of NCD care achieve UHC in Sub-Saharan Africa?
The Global Health Observatory data from the World Health Organization shows that the African region suffers more than 24 percent of the global burden of disease, yet has access to only 3 percent…