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Dr. Amit N. Thakker EBS retweeted
Africa’s health financing challenge is also becoming a data sovereignty challenge.
At #AHTS2026, this breakout asks how greater African control over health data can become leverage for financing and delivering UHC, from smarter risk pooling and insurance to real-time evidence for health-system decisions.
Data Sovereignty: Africa’s Leverage for Financing and Delivering UHC
Featuring:
• @docthakker - Executive Chairman, @AfricaHealthBiz
• Dr. Nicole Spieker - CEO, @PharmAccessOrg
• Chisom Amadi - Program Director, Digital Innovations, @PharmAccessOrg
• Hosea Kiprop - Group CFO, @AARInsuranceKe
• Kevin Rudahinduka - CEO, @EdenCareMedical
• Nelly Ale - Director, Community Health Workers, Nurses & Midwives, @MastercardFdn
1 Oct | 2–3 PM | KCC, MH 2A
How can Africa turn greater control over its health data into stronger financing and more sustainable pathways to UHC?
Register: healthtechsummit.africa
@AfricaCDC @SmartAfricaOrg @RwandaHealth #AHTS2026 #AHTSat5 #DataSovereignty #UHC #HealthFinancing
Dr. Amit N. Thakker EBS retweeted
Can a health worker get the right information in time? Can a patient access care closer to home? Can a digital solution keep working after its pilot funding ends?
These are the questions behind our Digital Health, AI & Data spotlight at #AHTSat5.
Meet more of the leaders joining us:
• @FredSwaniker - Founder & CEO, @SandTechInc
• Atef Fawaz - Executive Director, @eHealth_africa
• @NithyaRamanath1 - CEO & Co-Founder, @Nexleaf
• Ruchika Singhal - President, @MedtronicLabs
• Kim-Fredrik Schneider - International CEO & Co-Founder, @AbiGlobalHealth
• @paulmeyernyc - Co-Founder & CEO, Smart Health Network PBC
We’re bringing builders, health leaders and partners together to explore what it takes to make digital health work in everyday care.
📅 30 September - 2 October 2026 |📍 Kigali, Rwanda
Building, funding or deploying a solution? Bring your experience and the challenge you need partners to solve.
Register now: healthtechsummit.africa
#AHTS2026 #DigitalHealth #WellnessForAll
Dr. Amit N. Thakker EBS retweeted
What happens to the patient when the pilot funding ends?
That's the question behind scaling African healthtech: a promising service needs a sustainable way to keep reaching the people who depend on it.
The i3 Program (@i3africa), backed by @gatesfoundation, MSD, @sanofi and @Boehringer, connects African healthtech startups to industry through commercial partnerships, like an MSD-backed cervical cancer pharmacy deal and a malaria diagnostics partnership with Nigeria's malaria programme.
At #AHTSat5, i3 brings this to "Building the Sustainable Healthtech Partnerships African Patients Need."
🎙️ Moderated by Prashant Yadav, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Panel:
· Joseph Paul, MD - CEO, @DawaMkononi
· Ruth Zaipuna - CEO, @NMBTanzania
· Ashifi Gogo - Co-Founder, AISHA Technologies
With @SalientAdvisory's Tosin Oshinubi, Somto Chloe Keluo-Udeke & Mara Hansen Staples (@marakatherine1), and Uchenna Igbokwe, CEO of @SCIDaR_.
Lead a healthtech venture, invest in healthcare, or can open a commercial pathway? Join us, bring a partnership ready to move.
3:15–4:15 PM | Room AD12 📍 Kigali
Register: healthtechsummit.africa
#AHTSat5 #HealthTech #WellnessForAll
Dr. Amit N. Thakker EBS retweeted
Financing decides what gets built. Investment decides what scales. Enterprise decides what survives contact with the market. Most rooms only ever host one of those conversations.
At #AHTSat5, Health Financing, Investment & Enterprise brings all three into the same room - through the people who've spent their careers making each one work.
Leading the conversation:
• @kojere - CEO, Aderemi Adeseun Advisory
• @docthakker - CEO, @AfricaHealthBiz
• @DrErickRutto - President, @kenya_chamber
• Robin A. Miller - Founding Partner, @AxumEarth
• Tosin Oshinubi - Managing Director, @SalientAdvisory
• @wilfrednjagi - CEO, @VillgroAfrica
An advisor who structures the deals. A CEO who's built the business case for health as infrastructure. A chamber president who moves trade policy. A fund partner deciding what gets backed. A consultant translating intent into capital deployed. An enterprise-builder scaling what works.
If your deal, your fund or your enterprise needs one of these rooms to move forward, this is it. Bring the case you're ready to make.
Register: healthtechsummit.africa
📆 30 September–2 October 2026 📍 Kigali, Rwanda
#AHTSat5 #AHTS2026 #HealthFinancing #WellnessForAll
Dr. Amit N. Thakker EBS retweeted
Universal Health Coverage is more than access to care. It is also about building systems that can sustainably finance, deliver, and scale that care.
This Fireside Chat, “Delivering Universal Health Coverage,” will explore the role of private investment in strengthening Kenya’s UHC system, from innovative financing models and public-private partnerships to reimbursement certainty and the role of U.S. capital in building scalable health systems across the region.
Joining the conversation is Dr. Ouma Oluga, Principal Secretary, State Department for Medical Services (@MOHMedServices)
Moderated by Dr. Amit Thakker (@docthakker), Founder and Executive Chairman, Africa Health Business (@AfricaHealthBiz)
The conversation examines what it takes to move from ambition to implementation, and how government, investors, and the private sector can work together to build health systems that are both sustainable and fit for the future.
#AmChamSummit #AmChamSummit26 #FutureOfTrade #AmChamBizSummit
Dr. Amit N. Thakker EBS retweeted
A resilient health system is not only a policy ambition. It is an investment opportunity.
The Health Cooperation Framework Forum turned the conversation towards co-investment, local manufacturing, sustainable financing, and the implementation of reforms that can create a more self-reliant, investment-ready health system.
Discussants in this session were:
• Gilbert Osoro, Representative of SHA
• Dr. Ali Arale, Director- Health Products and Technologies to the first Health Breakout
Moderated by Dr. Amit Thakker (@docthakker), Founder and Executive Chairman, Africa Health Business (@AfricaHealthBiz)
#AmChamSummit #AmChamSummit26 #FutureOfTrade #AmChamBizSummit
Dr. Amit N. Thakker EBS retweeted
Today, the 13th East African Health Federation (EAHF) Conference and International Health Exhibition officially opened at the Adwa Victory Memorial Museum, in the presence of H.E. Temesgen Tiruneh, Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
The conference brings together Ministers and State Ministers of Health, health sector leaders, professionals, partners, and private sector actors from across the region and beyond. It is an opportunity to share experiences, learn from one another, strengthen partnerships, and explore collective solutions to the health challenges we face.
Ethiopia remains committed to advancing its health reform agenda, with a focus on building a stronger, more resilient and sustainable health system, anchored in quality primary health care and supported by a capable health workforce, sustainable health financing, digital transformation, and stronger local production and supply systems.
Delivering this agenda requires all of us to work together. Government, health institutions, development and implementing partners, academia, professional associations, and the private sector each have an important role to play. In particular, the private health sector brings valuable capacity in innovation, technology, and investment.
I look forward to the conversations, partnerships, and practical ideas that will emerge from this conference as we work together towards stronger, more resilient health systems across our region.
My sincere appreciation to H.E. Temesgen Tiruneh for joining us as Guest of Honour and delivering the opening remarks, and to all our partners and participants for being part of this important gathering.
Dr. Amit N. Thakker EBS retweeted
We're honored to have Africa Health Business (@africahealthbiz) as Knowledge Partners for the Health Sector at the #AmChamSummit.
Africa Health Business connects governments, development partners, and businesses to align public health priorities with private sector innovation, strengthening health systems and building sustainable healthcare solutions.
At the #AmChamSummit, they'll share perspectives on the partnerships, policies, and investment approaches shaping the future of healthcare across the U.S. and East Africa.
Join us on September 9–10, 2026.
Learn more and Get Your Ticket Today: amchambizsummit.com/
#AmChamSummit #AmChamSummit26 #FutureofTrade
Dr. Amit N. Thakker EBS retweeted
Africa’s population is expected to reach 2.5 billion by 2050, making the demand for improved healthcare services, diagnostics, pharmaceuticals and digital health bigger than ever.
This growing demand is expected to drive rapid expansion across the region, with East Africa's healthcare market projected to grow from approximately $8 billion to $15 billion over the decade, according to the World Health Expo (@worldhealthexpo).
At the heart of this growth is Kenya, home to a pharmaceutical market valued at approximately $1.2 billion annually and one of East Africa's leading pharmaceutical manufacturing and export hubs.
Recognized as one of the region's leading pharmaceutical producers and among the top exporters on the continent, Kenya continues to attract investment through a range of fiscal incentives.
As the region scales to meet rising healthcare demand, the health sector presents significant opportunities for investment and public-private collaboration with demand for resilient healthcare systems, digital health solutions, and sustainable healthcare financing increases.
The #AmChamSummit will highlight the investment opportunities driving its next phase of growth.
Get your ticket here: amchambizsummit.com/
#AmChamSummit #AmChamSummit26 #FutureOfTrade
Dr. Amit N. Thakker EBS retweeted
In Accra, I met with H.E. Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan (@SuluhuSamia), President of the United Republic of Tanzania and @_AfricanUnion Champion for Maternal and Child Health.
We agreed on an urgent priority: accelerating action to end preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths by 2030.
This means strengthening primary healthcare, investing more domestic resources in health, supporting our health workers, and using data and digital tools to reach women and children wherever they are.
Africa has made the commitments. We must now turn them into results, country by country and community by community.
Every woman should be able to give birth safely. Every newborn and every child should have the chance to survive and thrive.
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À Accra, j’ai rencontré S.E. Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan, présidente de la République-Unie de Tanzanie et ambassadrice de l’Union africaine pour la santé maternelle et infantile.
Nous nous sommes mis d’accord sur une priorité urgente : accélérer les actions visant à mettre fin aux décès évitables des mères, des nouveau-nés et des enfants d’ici 2030.
Cela implique de renforcer les soins de santé primaires, d’investir davantage de ressources nationales dans la santé, de soutenir nos professionnels de santé et d’utiliser les données et les outils numériques pour atteindre les femmes et les enfants où qu’ils se trouvent.
L’Afrique a pris ses engagements. Nous devons désormais les traduire en résultats, pays par pays et communauté par communauté.
Chaque femme devrait pouvoir accoucher en toute sécurité. Chaque nouveau-né et chaque enfant devrait avoir la chance de survivre et de s’épanouir.
#AfHealthSummit #AfricaReady #MaternalHealth #HealthSecurity @wizara_afyatz
Dr. Amit N. Thakker EBS retweeted
“Africa has the knowledge, the institutions and the political will to shape its own health future.
Our responsibility now is to turn today's commitments into measurable results that improve the lives of every African.
- H.E @GeneralNeva
President of Burundi🇧🇮
#AfHealthSummit
Dr. Amit N. Thakker EBS retweeted
We must recruit, train, fairly remunerate, protect & retain our doctors, nurses, midwives & community health workers.
Training health workers without creating pathways to employ & retain them is a loss of public investment & human potential.
H.E @amma_twumamoah
#AfHealthSummit
Dr. Amit N. Thakker EBS retweeted
At the @TheAR_Trust high level policy dialogue on Advancing Africa’s Health Agenda in Accra🇬🇭, H.E @amma_twumamoah called for bold political leadership in executing the Abuja 2001 Declaration by committing to increased health sector budget to at least 15%.
#AfHealthSummit
Dr. Amit N. Thakker EBS retweeted
The Extraordinary Summit on Health has kicked off in Accra, Ghana, with leaders calling for stronger political commitment, sustainable health financing, resilient health systems, and African-led solutions to safeguard the continent's health future.
Expected outcomes include:
1. Adoption of a Declaration on implementing the fully costed AU Roadmap to 2030.
2. Strengthened political commitment to ending AIDS and TB, and reducing maternal deaths.
3. Increased momentum for sustainable domestic health financing and local pharmaceutical manufacturing.
4. Stronger regional and international partnerships for health.
5. Improved governance of National Public Health Institutes.
6. Renewed commitment to resilient health systems and universal access to quality healthcare.
7 .Adoption of a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework to track progress and implementation.
#AfHealthSummit
#Agenda2063
Learn more here: au.int/en/newsevent/extraord…
Dr. Amit N. Thakker EBS retweeted
At the Extraordinary Session of the @AfricanUnion Assembly on Africa's Health in Accra, #Ghana, hosted by H.E. @JDMahama , President of the Republic of Ghana, & chaired by H.E. @GeneralNeva , President of the Republic of Burundi & Chairperson of the African Union (AU), the Chairperson of the AU Commission, H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, @ymahmoudali, called for a decisive shift from commitments to implementation in advancing Africa's #health agenda.
In his keynote address, he underscored that the AU Roadmap to 2030 & Beyond is Africa's implementation compact, designed to end AIDS, eliminate preventable maternal & child deaths, combat communicable & non-communicable diseases, strengthen resilient health systems, & advance Universal Health Coverage.
Emphasising that Africa's health sovereignty depends on stronger domestic financing, local manufacturing of #medicines & #vaccines, robust regulatory systems, research & innovation, & sustained political leadership, he urged Member States to translate the Accra Declaration & national pledges into measurable action.
"Future generations will remember this Summit not for our speeches, but for whether we changed the trajectory of health in Africa."
The Extraordinary Session brings together African leaders & key partners to advance collective action towards ending AIDS & tuberculosis, improving maternal & child health, strengthening resilient health systems, & accelerating Universal Health Coverage across the continent.
Read @ au.int/en/pressrelease/auc-c…
Dr. Amit N. Thakker EBS retweeted
Held a consultative meeting with senior leadership from Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), led by Business Unit Director for Sub-Saharan Africa, Andrie Vorster, to explore opportunities for deepening our partnership in advancing Kenya's cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment agenda.
With approximately 44,000 new cancer cases recorded annually, cancer remains a significant public health challenge.
Our discussions focused on expanding HPV vaccination, strengthening early detection through mobile screening and enhanced diagnostics, building local capacity, and supporting research and technology transfer to improve patient outcomes.
We also explored pathways to increase access to innovative cancer therapies, including access to Keytruda (pembrolizumab), an immunotherapy that has transformed the treatment of several cancers globally, while ensuring affordability within the public healthcare system.
Through the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA) and the Social Health Authority (SHA), the Government remains committed to strengthening comprehensive cancer care and accelerating progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
Collectively, we reaffirmed our shared commitment to leveraging innovation, strategic partnerships and sustainable investments to build a stronger, more accessible and people-centred cancer care system for all Kenyans.
Present were Dr. Omar Albush, Director of Health Sector Coordination; Dr. Elias Melly, Chief Executive Officer of the National Cancer Institute of Kenya; Dr. Joan-Paula Bor, Head the National Cancer Control Programme; and Dr. Wesley Mugambi from the National Immunization Programme.
Dr. Amit N. Thakker EBS retweeted
Cabinet Secretary for Health, Hon. Aden Duale, today presided over the official opening of the 10th Africa Health Business Symposium 2026 in Nairobi, setting the pace for renewed focus on health financing and investment across the continent.
The two-day conference, held under the theme “Health as an Investment: Powering Impact, Sustainability and Economic Growth in Africa,” is co-hosted by Africa Health Business in partnership with the Ministry of Health Kenya. It has convened leaders from government, private sector, development partners, and civil society to advance solutions, catalyse investments, and strengthen public-private partnerships in health.
During the opening session, CS Duale called for stronger domestic resource mobilisation, enhanced accountability, increased investment in digital health technologies, and reduced reliance on external support amid tightening global financing.
He outlined four key priorities driving Universal Health Coverage: sustainable health financing through the Social Health Authority (SHA), which has already onboarded over 30.5 million Kenyans; strengthening primary healthcare and community systems; advancing local manufacturing; and accelerating digital transformation to support delivery of the Taifa Care Model.
The Cabinet Secretary noted that the ongoing reforms are unlocking investment opportunities across the health sector, positioning Kenya as a regional hub for health innovation and investment.
The session was attended by Nigeria’s Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Dr Adekunle Salako; Chairman of Africa Health Business and Founder of the East Africa Healthcare Federation, Dr Amit Thakker; WHO Country Director, Dr Neema Kimambo; Managing Director of Africa Health Business, Marloes Kibacha; and Director of Programme Management at the WHO Regional Office for Africa, Dr Abdourahmane Diallo, among other stakeholders.
Dr. Amit N. Thakker EBS retweeted
Principal Secretary for Medical Services, Dr Ouma Oluga, today participated in a high-level panel discussion on “Financing Health Futures: Unlocking Investment for Africa” at the Africa Health Business Symposium 2026 in Nairobi.
The symposium, officially opened by Cabinet Secretary for Health, Hon. Aden Duale, has convened regional and global leaders to explore investment opportunities and strengthen partnerships across the health sector.
During the session, Dr Oluga outlined Kenya’s evolving health financing model and its role in expanding equitable and sustainable access to care.
He emphasised the need to strengthen health systems, scale innovative partnerships, and improve access to quality services as part of efforts to build a resilient healthcare system aligned with Africa’s development priorities.
The discussion brought together global and regional stakeholders, including Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Marloes Kibacha, Ministry of Health officials, and other partners.
Dr. Amit N. Thakker EBS retweeted
Looking forward to this event next week @MOH_Kenya @HonAdenDuale as we build the narrative of " Health is an Investment"
Dr. Amit N. Thakker EBS retweeted
As requested, we now have made it possible for you to participate virtually - all these sessions will be screened live. Please join using this link : us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
