AU Summit on Health: Ex-Tanzania president bemoans the high level of maternal mortality in Africa

Delivering a keynote address at the High-Level Interactive Policy Dialogue: Advancing Africa's Health Agenda through Domestic Financing, Accountability and Strategic Innovations, held on the margins of the AU Extraordinary Summit on Health in Accra on July 20, Dr Kikwete was astonished that seven out of every 10 maternal deaths occurred on the African continent.

Nana Oye Bampoe Addo, a Deputy Chief of Staff of Ghana (L) and Ghana's Deputy Health Minister Dr Grace Ayensu-Danquah The high-level interactive policy dialogue on advancing Africa's health agenda through domestic financing, accountability and strategic innovations was held on the margins of the African Union's Extraordinary Summit on Health in Accra.

Former President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete (middle) at the policy dialogue Former President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, who is the patron of the Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete Foundation, has bemoaned the high level of maternal mortality on the African continent.