{"id":239186,"date":"2026-07-21T07:14:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-african-countries-challenged-to-boost-investment-in-health-sciences\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T07:14:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:14:57","slug":"mozambique-african-countries-challenged-to-boost-investment-in-health-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-african-countries-challenged-to-boost-investment-in-health-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: African Countries Challenged to Boost Investment in Health Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Maputo \u2014 The Director-General of Mozambique&#8217;s National Institute of Health, Eduardo Samo Gudo, calls on African countries to boost investment in science and heath technologies because &#8220;the continent cannot keep waiting for the global north, Western countries and other rich countries, to develop the tests and medicines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The Director-General, who was speaking in Maputo at the fifth symposium marking the 30th anniversary of the Manhi\u00e7a Health Research Center, said African countries must start&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607200209.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 The Director-General of Mozambique&#8217;s National Institute of Health, Eduardo Samo Gudo, calls on African countries to boost investment in science and heath technologies because &#8220;the continent cannot keep waiting for the global north, Western countries and other rich countries, to develop the tests and medicines.&#8221; The Director-General, who was speaking in Maputo at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,4380,6557,10306,6507,5731,6018,4704,682,257,11587,254],"class_list":["post-239186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-boost","tag-challenged","tag-countries","tag-health","tag-investment","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-sciences","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}