Who is filling the global health financing gap when donor funding exits — and what will it take to build markets that don’t need permission to grow?
As capital shifts and donor dependency fades, African health innovators face a defining challenge: build solutions the market actually wants, or wait for funding that may never return. In the second episode of Investing in Impact, host Moses Waweru sits down with David Saunders and Efosa Ojomo to explore how the changing investment landscape is reshaping health innovation across the continent.
The shift lies in designing for real demand, attracting the right kind of capital, and building systems that sustain themselves — not because donors require it, but because the market rewards it. From understanding how capital flows to recognising what makes innovation truly investable, the conversation reframes sustainability as a design choice, not a funding outcome.
The question was never who funds the solution. It’s whether the solution creates enough value to fund itself.
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