{"id":240268,"date":"2026-08-03T19:59:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-after-accra-africas-health-sovereignty-needs-receipts\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T19:59:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:59:52","slug":"africa-after-accra-africas-health-sovereignty-needs-receipts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-after-accra-africas-health-sovereignty-needs-receipts\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: After Accra, Africa&#8217;s Health Sovereignty Needs Receipts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Dr William Nii Ayitey Menson, Director of Health Financing for Africa at the ONE Campaign, argues that Africa&#8217;s health sovereignty will only become real when summit pledges translate into budget releases, functioning services and public accountability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">At the African Union&#8217;s Extraordinary Summit on Health in Accra, I kept having one uncomfortable thought: I have heard this before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">The words were true. Africa must finance more of its own health systems. Primary health care must be stronger&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608030665.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr William Nii Ayitey Menson, Director of Health Financing for Africa at the ONE Campaign, argues that Africa&#8217;s health sovereignty will only become real when summit pledges translate into budget releases, functioning services and public accountability. At the African Union&#8217;s Extraordinary Summit on Health in Accra, I kept having one uncomfortable thought: I have heard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[4507],"tags":[4512,258,256,6287,4509,5731,257,16959,254,864],"class_list":["post-240268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-accra","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-ghana-news","tag-health","tag-news","tag-receipts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sovereignty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240268","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240268\/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=240268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}