ENGAGING THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO IMPROVE HEALTH IN AFRICA

In much of sub‐Saharan Africa, governments have demonstrably failed to deliver health services to the poor. In some places, governments and donor agencies have contracted with private companies and non‐profits to deliver health services, with considerable success. Ideologically driven Western NGOs oppose further moves towards private provision – seemingly preferring the poor to suffer substandard and erratic government provision than to obtain their healthcare through non‐state means.