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Floods can close wards, while extreme heat threatens medicine storage. Climate-health funding helps providers protect these services. But a hospital facing these risks may still struggle to afford the assessments needed to make its case to a funder.
Treezer Michelle Atieno - Editor
Climate-health financing initiatives for African healthcare businesses are growing. Accessing the funds, however, require costly assessments, where businesses prove how climate change threatens their services and why the proposed response will work. A new Amref partnership aims to support this preparation and mobilise project funding.
In the past two years, at least 12 funding schemes have supported climate-health projects in Africa. Of these, only four offered project assessment support. This despite the fact that climate change presents one of Africa’s biggest future health challenges.
Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi needed $60,000 to study a planned energy upgrade in 2025, and the WHO requested $160,000 to prepare a climate-health programme across four countries. The Amref programme closes this gap.
Our take: Funding early assessments deserves a place in climate-health budgets. Healthcare businesses should not have to choose between providing care and preparing for future investment…Read more (2 min)
African healthtech companies providing care at home and helping patients pay for treatment attracted backing in September. Healthcare Rising tracked two investment rounds and a $250,000 prize, alongside an acquisition giving French digital health insurer Alan an established network in Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire.
Kenya’s Turaco secured investment to support affordable insurance, while Egypt’s Anees Health raised seed funding to expand coordinated home care. Their rounds remain undisclosed. Investment site Africa: The Big Deal estimates them at $500,000 and $100,000 respectively. Cameroon’s Waspito won the $250,000 prize.
Alan’s acquisition of Tanel adds a different route to growth. The Senegalese company brings an existing network of more than 1,200 pharmacies and healthcare providers. The companies aim to reach more than one million people across Africa by 2030.
Our take: Tanel’s acquisition proves that relationships with healthcare providers can become an asset a larger company is willing to buy…Read more (2 min)
Hospital operations and public health leadership are the most prominent in this roundup of 33 mid and senior healthcare vacancies across the continent. East Africa accounts for ten openings, followed by Central Africa with eight, West and Southern Africa with seven each and North Africa with one. Several multinational organisations have open roles.
Specialist opportunities include an artificial intelligence engineering role supporting health services in Rwanda, planetary health research in Tanzania and vaccine cold-chain engineering in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
WHO, Clinton Health Access Initiative, UNICEF and Aga Khan University account for most of the positions listed. Private-sector openings include clinic management at Reliance Health and senior clinical research roles in South Africa.
Find the full list…Read more (2 min)
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Zambia signs $2 billion medical-city deal targeting southern Africa’s healthcare market
Events
🗓️ Attend the World Health Expo in South Africa (Oct 08)
🗓️ Join the Future of Health Conference in Nigeria (Oct 29).
🗓️ Participate in the Pharma Society of Nigeria Annual National Conference (Nov 02)
Various
💉 Ethiopia reports 27 laboratories established or upgraded since 2024.
💉 Sierra Leone reviews vaccine investment priorities for Gavi funding.
💉 Kenya’s eye-care programme reports 1.5 million screenings since April.
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Tosin Faniro-Dada says, “Across sub-Saharan Africa, constrained budgets and worsening clinical staff shortages are forcing hospitals to focus on a single priority: staying operational. That reality is quietly but decisively reshaping which healthtech companies get adopted and which ones stall.”