African governments and development partners have called for increased domestic investment, improved remuneration and formal recognition of community health workers as the continent steps up efforts to deploy two million workers by 2030.
They made the call at the beginning of a three-day high-level forum on community health workers in Abuja, on Wednesday, where speakers warned that Africa’s ambition to achieve Universal Health Coverage would remain difficult without a properly trained, equipped and sustainably financed community health workforce.
Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Iziaq Salako, said Africa had approximately 1.36 million community health workers as of May 2026, still short of its two-million target.
He said, “Only 68 per cent of African Union member states formally recognised community health workers as part of their national health workforce, while only about half paid them through government budget lines.”
According to him, 85 per cent of countries still
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