The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched the first of four feasibility studies under the Satellite-Enhanced Telemedicine and eHealth for Sub-Saharan Africa (eHSA) programme, eHealth governance. Funding for this study has been provided by the Infrastructure Trust Fund (ITF - the instrument of the wider European and African Union’s Partnership on Infrastructure) and the Government of Luxembourg through ESA and the Luxembourg Agency for Cooperation and Development (Lux-Dev).