Investing in Health for Africa

Overview

Why an African Investment Case?

Investing in African health systems is an opportunity to accelerate economic development and growth, contribute to saving millions of lives and preventing life-long disabilities, and move countries closer to achieving objectives of national poverty reduction strategies and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). To promote increased and improved health investment, the Africa Investment Case is developed by the Harmonization for Health in Africa to: (i) support African leaders, and their regional and global partners focus their attention and resources on health investment that works, (ii) provide an evidence base for Ministries of Health to make the case to Ministries of Finance, national Parliaments, and other key stakeholders that investing in health makes economic sense and will bring considerable returns, (iii) promote value for money by demonstrating how the efficiency with which existing and new resources are deployed in the health system can be increased through priority-setting processes based on demographic trends and the burden of disease, and (iv) to mobilize leadership at the national, regional, and global levels to support national health systems in Africa in their efforts to increase the pace and sustainability of achieving better health and economic development outcomes for the people of Africa.