Africa’s Health Systems Must Confront Climate Change As A Critical Health Crisis

Climate resilience is a key theme of the World Health Summit’s regional meeting to take place in Nairobi from 27-29 April, and which is bringing leaders together to address the structural realities of health security across the continent and advance a transformative reform agenda. Climate change has introduced a new and increasingly fragile context for health service delivery and the process of reframing it as a health systems issue is at a critical juncture. It requires the health leaders to be front and centre in climate decision-making and climate resilience to become a performance indicator for health systems.