QuickShare – October 2026

‎بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Always Merciful.

‎السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ
Assalaamu Alaikum.

Greetings of Peace! This letter is late. In September I promised shorter notes more often, rather than another year of silence, and then October nearly slipped past. So here is the rhythm, written down so you can hold me to it: QuickShare now goes out on the third Friday of each month. The next one is Friday 20 November.

What has moved since September

On 21 October about thirty of us met online for the second AfroPHC e-Workshop, on the Call to Africa and the proposal to rebuild AfroPHC as a coalition of African PHC organisations rather than a loose network of individuals. I said something in that room that I want to repeat here: this restructuring is about legitimacy, not money. A forum that claims to speak for frontline PHC teams across Africa must be able to show who stands behind it. The breakout groups were sharp, on domestic funding, on the workforce and on what organisations would actually need from us. The recording (without the breakouts) is on YouTube here. If your room lost power or signal halfway, you were not alone.

On 7 October we opened the SP4UHC webinar series with “Setting the Table”: the global literature on strategic purchasing for UHC, from the World Health Reports and Astana to the Joint Learning Network, and the frameworks that family medicine, public health and health economics each bring to it. Each session closes with open questions for research, the kind of MSc and PhD questions that grow out of a conversation rather than a reading list. The recording is in the series playlist here.

AfroPHC MOOVE, our pilot of an AI assistant for PHC teams, is still working its way through the Wits ethics process, slower than I hoped and as careful as it should be. More when there is something to show you.

📢 SP4UHC Session 2: Wednesday 4 November, 14:00–15:30 SAST

Exploring African UHC and strategic purchasing: the continental picture, what the Joint Learning Network and SPARC work tells us, and where the African evidence is thin. I am presenting this one myself. Yes, 4 November is election day in South Africa and a public holiday. We are going ahead: vote in the morning, join us in the afternoon. Register here and the Zoom link comes with the reminders. Session 3, on South Africa’s own UHC and strategic purchasing efforts, with reform and critical voices in the same room, follows on Wednesday 2 December. For the weekly literature email between sessions, join the SP4UHC list here. The bibliography and resources sit at profmoosa.com/sp4uhc-research.

💡 AfroPHC Supporting Organisations: please answer by 5 December

The thirty organisations that have supported AfroPHC since 2021 have a letter asking whether they want to continue, and for their answers to the three questions in the workshop slides. Replies by Saturday 5 December via the AfroPHC network, please; the Executive Board meets on 18 November to take them forward. We are also exploring whether the first AGM, on 17 March 2027, could become a three-day online conference built around the Supporting Organisations. If your organisation is not yet one and would want to be part of that, tell me. If you are an individual, join the AfroPHC network here.

🔍 Looking back, moving forward

The fuller story, the Call to Africa, the restructuring proposal and the SP4UHC bibliography, is on afro-phc.org and here on profmoosa.com.

Please share this with colleagues who might benefit. They can join the QuickShare list here. I read every reply, and I answer.

Pray, keep well and safe.

Warm regards,
Prof. Shabir Moosa, MBBCh, MFamMed, MBA, PhD

Prof Moosa occupies the roles of: Medical Specialist, PHC & OPD Contracting | NHI Branch, National Department of Health; Honorary Associate Professor, Family Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand; and Executive Coordinator, African Forum for Primary Health Care (AfroPHC)