Access to healthcare is not enough – high quality care has to be the target

Feb 13, 2019

A patient collects medicine at the Kogelo Dispensary in the U.S. President Barack Obama's ancestral village of Nyang'oma Kogelo, west of Kenya's capital Nairobi, July 16, 2015. Obama visits Kenya and Ethiopia in July, his third major trip to Sub-Saharan Africa after travelling to Ghana in 2009 and to Tanzania, Senegal and South Africa in 2011. He has also visited Egypt, in North Africa, and South Africa for Nelson Mandela's funeral. Obama will be welcomed by a continent that had expected closer attention from a man they claim as their son, a sentiment felt acutely in the Kenyan village where the 44th U.S. president's father is buried. Picture taken July 16, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - GF10000168099

Delivery of healthcare in low-income countries is as much about quality of care as availability of treatment. Image: REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Harald Nusser

Head of Novartis Social Business, Novartis

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