<p>Identifying Key Challenges Facing Healthcare Systems In Africa And Potential Solutions</p>

Some challenges facing Lean Thinking in healthcare

While improvement methods have delivered higher efficiency and better quality products, the question of applicability in healthcare is still clouded by uncertainty. Traditionally, there have been opposing views: on the one hand promoting large-scale industrial-type improvement to bring healthcare into the modern era and, on the other, arguing that people are not motor cars and that simplistic a...

The challenges facing mediation in Africa

The African Union (AU) and most of the regional organisations on the continent have a mandate to engage in mediation and other forms of peacemaking.2 In practice these organisations and their member states, at times with the support of the UN, non-governmental bodies and international bilateral partners, have undertaken mediation in many countries, including Burundi, Chad, the Comoros, the Demo...

Key Challenges Facing the World Trade Organization

Improving the Quality and Quantity of HIV Data in the Middle East and North Africa: Key Challenges and Ways Forward

Although the HIV pandemic is witnessing a decline in the number of new infections in most regions of the world, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has a rapidly growing HIV problem. While generating HIV data has been consistently increasing since 2005, MENA’s contribution to the global HIV literature is just over 1% and the existing evidence often falls behind the academic standards. Sever...

The Challenges Facing Higher Education in South Africa Discussion Points

1. This paper may come as a surprise to many awaiting it, as it does not set out some blueprint for tertiary education. It proceeds by rais ing a number of issues and questions, many of which relate to epistemology and strategic choices we need to consider for our country. In this way we seek to shape a dialogue that will lead us to concrete outcomes. In doing this we have not neglected our cha...