The Financing Alliance for Health
COHORT 1 MESSAGE TO NEW COHORT 2
As we prepare to launch Cohort 3 of the Health Systems and Financing Accelerator Fellowship, we are looking back with the leaders who started the journey first.
In this video, Cohort 1 fellows ref...
Africa's Health Financing Crossroads: Why Cohort 3 Matters More Than Ever
Africa's health financing landscape is facing a defining moment.
Countries are navigating a perfect storm of rising debt pressures, declining donor funding, and growing health needs. As governmen...
Can Taxes on Everyday Goods Help Fund Health Systems?
As foreign aid reaches its lowest levels in recorded history, African countries are being forced to look inward for health financing solutions. In this video, Dr. Mpuma Kamanga, Health Financing Ma...
The State of Investment in Community Health Workers in Sub Sahar
What do current data tell us about investment in community health workers in Sub-Saharan Africa, and where are the biggest gaps that still remain? In this webinar, CHW Central and Financing Allianc...
Our Nurses, Our Future
Across Africa, nurses and midwives are the backbone of our health systems, making up 37% of the health workforce and delivering up to 90% of primary healthcare services in many settings.
Yet desp...
What Does a Reimagined Health System for Africa Look Like? | World Health Summit 2026
What does a reimagined health system for Africa really look like — especially at a time of declining donor financing and growing pressure on public systems?
At the World Health Summit Regional Meet...
“We’re Piloted to Death”: Why Social Innovation Struggles to Scale
At Skoll World Forum 2026, our Co‑CEO Soleine Scotney names a reality many social innovators know too well:
there is no shortage of ideas that work — but too few ever make it to scale.
In this refl...
SOLEINE ON WHATS THE ONE THING THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE
What’s the one thing you would change about philanthropy and how it moves?
At Skoll World Forum 2026, under this year’s theme Regeneration, we posed this question to Soleine Scotney, Co‑CEO of the ...
If Budgets Do Not Change, Maternal Deaths Will Not Change | IMNHC 2026
MNH FINANCING
What happens when conferences end but budgets stay the same?
At the International Maternal Newborn Health Conference 2026, Dr Thenjiwe Sisimayi delivered a powerful reminder: progres...
“17 Years Later, I Am Still Healing” | A Community Health Worker’s Call at IMNHC 2026
“I lost my baby 17 years ago. A baby girl. Seventeen years later, I am still healing.”
At the International Maternal Newborn Health Conference 2026, Margaret Odera, a Community Health Worker, share...
How Investing in Community Health Pays Off | HSFA Fellow Spotlight
Community health is one of the most powerful and cost‑effective investments any country can make.
In this HSFA Fellow Spotlight...
In this video, we explore:
• The continued decline in external health aid and what it means for low- and middle-income countries
• Growing pressure on governments to rely more on domestic resources...
From losing two siblings to malaria as a child to becoming one of Sierra Leone’s most promising health system leaders, Dr Abdul Jibril Njai’s story is one of resilience, purpose and deep commitment...
“It may be nine months. But the knowledge gained is more than a two year masters degree. Not only did I benefit. My entire country benefited.”
— Dr. Mack Allan Gbayanguele
When Covid nineteen expo...
After 8 months of hard work, intense trainings, mentorship, and deep dedication, our government fellows are officially graduating from the Health Systems & Financing Accelerator (HSFA) Fellowship
As we countdown to #GivingTuesday2025, we celebrate the incredible impact of community health workers in Makueni County.
✅ 3,600 Community Health Workers deployed
✅ 202,670 households reached in 3...
💭 “If we lack so much financing, why should we spend money on community health workers instead of highly trained professionals like doctors and nurses?”
A powerful and critical question from the h..
“𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐢𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐄 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐏𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑!” — Geredine Kandie, Technical Advisor at the Financing Alliance for He
“It’s not just about spending more money — it’s about spending it smarter, better, more efficiently.” — Dr. Mpuma Kamanga
As external support declines, African nations must rethink how they fund h...
Can financing models really work in Africa? 💡 Rwanda says yes — and proves it.
In this #CPHIA2025 side event hosted by Africa Health Business & Novartis, FAH Co-CEO Soleine Scotney shares Rwanda