Challenge
Underlying weaknesses in healthcare in developing countries that have left communities more vulnerable to both communicable and chronic disease. In Sub-Saharan Africa, an estimated one million people suffer from chronic kidney disease requiring dialysis.
Solution and Impact
A DFC loan is supporting the expansion of Africa Healthcare Network, the first dialysis chain in Sub-Saharan Africa focused on expanding access to affordable and quality care. Africa Healthcare Network will use the loan to improve dialysis care in existing hospitals in Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda, while establishing clinics to screen for kidney disease as well as registries for patients who are at risk. The project helps to address a growing challenge of non-communicable diseases in Africa.
This project was profiled in 2021.