EASTERN and Southern Africa (ESA) countries continue to face critical health budget deficits while sources of income to fund the sector remain subdued, experts have said. By Nyasha Chingono While there is agreement that universal coverage of health is a human right, countries still fall short of the Abuja Declaration which calls on states to spend 15% of the total domestic budget on health services. The Covid-19 pandemic, which caught many countries unprepared, exposed lack of investment in health sectors across the region while widening the gap between the “haves…
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