[Fomite]

Then it's improved dramatically since I was told the figure I was told, which was admittedly a few years ago by the deputy minister for health.

It seems hard to get a fixed number. Doing math off the Uganda MOH budget puts it at about $4.

But it should also be noted that even the optimistic figure likely also includes things like hospital construction, money to pay healthcare workers, labs (and lab reagents), etc. that isn't what people normally think of.

I'd really like my number to be wrong though. Because even $15 per person is...dire.

[shaki-dora]

Your number is definitely wrong, even by your own calculation. Why don’t you update your posts above, which just peddle some ridiculous stereotype of Africa?

Your reasoning also leaves out that a lot of health care never goes through government coffers, both in African nations but also, for example, in the US.

[Fomite]

I can't actually update the number - though I wasn't peddling some "ridiculous sterotype of Africa". I work in infectious disease prevention in Africa - and I got that number, as mentioned elsewhere, through the Ugandan MOH. That there are extreme constraints on funding is just true, and does impact a lot of decision making.

For that matter, if you'd like me to talk about the way non-African healthcare systems are broken, I'm happy to do that as well, that just happens to not be what this thread is about.

Also, the programs we are talking about rarely go through non-governmental sources.