Local models for chronic care and self-management support in Southern Malawi Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Joske Bunders, Bart Criel
Health systems in Africa are grappling with considerable challenges including poor health infrastructure, erratic supply chain, inadequate human resources and lack of pro-poor health financing policies. The double burden of infectious diseases (HIV and tuberculosis) and rise in non-communicable diseases (hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular disease) and related mortality, is forcing policy makers to re-orient their health systems to meet ...