<p>Recent political social and economic changes in Africa have provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. <i>Medicine Mobility and Power in Global Africa</i> captures the multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on medicine health and the delivery of healthcare in Africa--and beyond. Essays by an international group of contributors take on intractable problems such as HIV/AIDS malaria and insufficient access to healthcare drugs resources hospitals and technologies. The movements of people and resources described here expose the growing challenges of poverty and public health but they also show how new opportunities have been created for transforming healthcare and promoting care and healing.</p>