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    Covid-19 and the Environmental Crisis: Towards a Lower-Carbon Recovery

    By Ludmila Azo
    April 21, 2020
    COVID-19 in Environmental crisis: How can the public sector kill two birds with one stone?
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    The Campaign Against Tedros Adhanom: Objective or Ideological?

    By Teshome Beyene Berhe
    April 20, 2020
    A unified response is critical to fighting bigoted and ideology-laden campaigns against proven leaders from Africa.
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    How can African Tax Collectors Help Cope with the Economic Impacts of Covid-19?

    By Mick Moore
    April 19, 2020
    It is very challenging for African governments to use tax measures to counter the economic consequences of the pandemic, and even more challenging to ...
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  • Covid-19COVID-19Debating IdeasPublic Health

    Covid-19: What Africa Can Learn from Africa – Community Care Centres

    By Esther Yei Mokuwa, Foday Mamoud Kamara, Harro Maat, Susannah Mayhew, Paul Richards, Maarten Voors
    April 17, 2020
    Africa lacks the advanced facilities found in Europe and North America however epidemics like COVID-19 respond to old-fashioned public health measures.
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    كوفيد-19 في أفريقيا: إعرف الوباء، واعمل على سياسته

    By Alex de Waal
    April 16, 2020
    Arabic translation of Alex de Waal's Covid19 in Africa: Know your Pandemic, Act on its Politics
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  • COVID-19Covid-19Debating IdeasEconomies and SocietiesPublic Health

    Improving the Living Conditions of Cash Transfer Agents Could Curb the Spread of Covid-19

    By Timothy Gachanga
    April 15, 2020
    As the Kenyan government continues to support the elderly and vulnerable members of the society through cash transfer programmes, it is important that challenges ...
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  • Covid-19COVID-19Debating IdeasNigeriaPublic Health

    How Covid-19 Lockdowns Affect Healthcare of Non-Covid Cases

    By Adejoke Adeboyejo
    April 14, 2020
    Coronavirus Pandemic Causes Neglect Of Other Healthcare Challenges
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  • COVID-19Covid-19Debating IdeasPublic Health

    Bending the Epicurve towards Justice: Biomedical Response

    By Paul Richards Daniel Cohen
    April 9, 2020
    Medical biotechnology changes can be crucial to individuals’ survival, if they are given enough time before they are infected.
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  • Covid-19COVID-19Debating IdeasDecolonisationEthiopiaPublic Health

    Barefoot Doctors and Pandemics: Ethiopia’s Experience and Covid-19 in Africa

    By Mulugeta Gebrehiwot
    April 8, 2020
    What experience of a people's-centred health system can Ethiopia teach the world?
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  • Covid-19COVID-19Debating IdeasPublic Health

    Combatting Outbreaks: Why We Should Listen to District and Frontline Health Workers

    By Vandi Ahmed Susannah Mayhew Dina Balabanova
    April 6, 2020
    Combating outbreaks, why we should listen to district and frontline health workers
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