COVID-19 highlighted the critical need for countries to make greater investments in their health workforce. This is no truer than in Lesotho, the small, mountainous country landlocked within South Africa, dealing with multiple epidemics. When COVID-19 struck, Lesotho had the second-highest number of people living with HIV per capita in the world.

This brief provides insight into the major reforms that Senegal is embarking upon to increase the number of people covered by health insurance by 2026.

How many public sector health care workers do we have in our country? What level of training do they have? Where are they located? How much are they paid?