Sixty percent of traditional foreign health aid to Africa was effectively wasted, according to Dr. Jean Kaseya, director-general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Let me also shock you: We don't need more than 40% of [the] money we were receiving before,” he said during a Devex Impact House event on the sidelines of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meetings in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Lia Tadesse Gebremedhin, former Ethiopian health minister, agreed with Kaseya, but said sometimes these inefficiencies could reach up to 80%.