(Source: Global Fund)
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Digital health in many ways holds the key to getting healthcare ready for climate change in Africa. It improves disease surveillance and access to care during disasters through tools like telemedicine. However, digital health access will need more than innovations and connectivity, as discussed in the just concluded 2025 World Health Expo in Nairobi, Kenya.
“While internet penetration in Africa has grown, digital literacy is also needed to advance digital health. It’s as essential as knowing how to take a temperature or administer an injection,” said Sean Blaschke, the Chief of Digital Health at UNICEF.
Other challenges discussed include weak data protection, fragmented regulation, slow product approvals, limited local datasets and biased AI benchmarks which hinder scale and trust.
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