The COVID-19 pandemic has spread across Africa, with every country on the continent
confirming cases of the disease. In addition to efforts aimed at flattening the disease
curve, improving diagnosis, and ensuring case finding and management align with global
benchmarks, health systems in African countries are also facing several local challenges
that foreign solutions may not effectively help with. These challenges are presenting
opportunities for the health technologies sector in Africa, which is now seeing more
activity than was anticipated at the outset of 2020.

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