The inaugural Africa Primary Health Care Forum (APHCF), held from July 14–15, 2025, at the Lake Greenfield Hotel in Abuja, Nigeria, brought together a wide range of stakeholders to address urgent challenges in Africa’s primary health care (PHC) systems. The Forum focused on strengthening PHC through workforce development, resilient service delivery, and digital health innovation, drawing critical lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. It aligns with the World Health Organization’s Public Health and Emergency Workforce Roadmap.
APHCF provided a collaborative platform for policymakers, researchers, health workforce experts, digital health innovators, community health workers, and non-state actors to engage in dialogue, share evidence, and forge new partnerships. A central theme of the Forum was the importance of multisectoral collaboration to create people-centered, equitable health systems that work for everyone—especially the underserved populations.
By fostering a solution-oriented approach and leveraging Africa’s growing expertise, the Forum marks a significant step forward in driving health equity and achieving Universal Health Coverage across the continent.
By partnering with WAIPH for APHCF, you can:
• Amplify your impact: Reach a wider audience of policymakers, healthcare professionals, and community leaders.
• Collaborate with experts: Network with leading experts in primary health care and explore opportunities for joint initiatives.
• Drive innovation: Contribute to the development of innovative solutions to address pressing health challenges.
• Shape the future of health in Africa: Be part of a movement to build resilient health systems and improve the lives of millions of people.
Discover more about the West African Institute of Public Health:
The West African Institute of Public Health (WAIPH) is a non-state regional health organisation conceived in 2007 to strengthen public health functions through the building of responsive health systems anchored on the six building blocks of the system, with its core programme pillars covering the strengthening of the enabling environment, research, training and programme implementation in West Africa. As part of the implementation of its mandate to professionalise human resource for public health capacity, it has as its flagship vehicle the Academy of Public Health (APH) which works to actualise the tenets of the Regional Charter of Public Health.
Our vision is to be the leading non-state advocacy, research, standards, training, certifications and public health implementation organization in West Africa.
Our Mission as an organization is to strengthen West Africa’s public health institutional and systems capability and provide knowledge to achieve better quality health coverage and outcomes for all in the spirit of Universal Health Coverage.
The key pillars of the Institute’s interventions are around, Policy, Advocacy, Enabling environment, Research, training/education, Certifications, Standards, Advisory services and public health programme implementation.
