Medical Equipment Leasing in Kenya: Neocolonial Global Finance and Misplaced Health Priorities

The paper brings to the fore how an undemocratic, neocolonial and neoliberal global governance system keeps African countries in an austerity and private finance chokehold, placing corporate and elite interests above the rights of citizens, exacerbating health care crises. Women bear a wildly disproportionate burden of these crises. They are the primary users of failed public health systems both for their own health and that of the people they provide care for. Their out of pocket expenditures on health care has been found to be systematically higher than men and their lower incomes puts private healthcare out of reach. This paper makes the argument for greater Pan African and feminist resistance of
prevailing orthodox macroeconomic policy that is increasingly centering private finance and the intensification of connected struggles against neoliberal and (neo) colonial systemic oppression across
the continent.
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