Africa 2025: Vital Signs

Africa stands at a defining moment for health and growth. In 2025, the continent navigates rising care costs, tighter budgets, and renewed geopolitical tension. However, South Africa’s G20 health presidency, which ran from December 2024 to November 2025, gave African leaders a platform to turn those pressures into a shared agenda for access, resilience, and locally anchored capability across regulation, manufacturing, and financing.

Executive Forecast

December 17, 2025

Building a Data‑Driven, Patient‑Centered Healthcare Future in South Africa: Interview with Thom Renwick - General Manager, Roche, South Africa

December 2025

Rhulani Nhlaniki - Cluster Lead, Sub-Saharan Africa & Country Manager, South Africa, Pfizer | President, IPASA (Innovative Pharmaceutical Association South Africa)

December 2025

Building Africa’s Genomic Future: Interview with Bridget Mogale - Associate Director and Country Manager, Illumina, South Africa

December 2025

Where Innovation Meets Well-Being: Interview with Toni Hanekom – Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Welltech, South Africa

December 2025

Bert Maddens - General Manager, South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, AbbVie

December 2025

Glaudina Loots – Director of Health Innovation, Department of Science and Innovation, South Africa

November 2025

Innovation Only Matters When People Can Reach It: Interview with Sara Norcross - Vice President and General Manager, Novo Nordisk, South Africa

November 2025

Untapping The Potential For Africa: Interview with Tarek El Rahbani – Senior Regional Director, Middle East and Africa, Boston Scientific

October 2025

Africa’s Vaccine Future: Ambition, Alignment, and Action - Interview with Dr Morena Makhoana, Chief Executive Officer, Biovac, South Africa

October 2025

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