Health in Africa: …and get back to basics

Granted that corruption is almost worldwide, its rampant nature in Africa causes problems with monies available, received, and disbursed by the appropriate agencies in some countries. 2 As to efficient use of meagre resources, some countries outside Africa (for example, Jamaica) that are in the same developmental bracket as some African countries do far better with less. 3 The general determinants of the health of populations show that an efficient, robust, and performing health services organisation is basic to the health of nations. 4 Human capacity building, as the mainstay of all organisations, especially for health service delivery, research, etc, has suffered in most African countries, more so in recent times from net migration from sub-Saharan Africa to the developed world (or much wealthier developing countries).