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    Africa Can Improve Future Health Systems Resilience by Complementing Gaps in Physical Infrastructure with Digital Health Solutions

    By Lenias Hwenda
    November 16, 2020
    Improving Africa's health system resilience
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    Covid-19 in South Africa: Whither Migrants?

    By Ncumisa Willie Faisal Garba
    June 17, 2020
    Nationalistic approaches to the covid-19 pandemic overlook the interdependent nature of social relations
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    COVID-19 and Agricology: Echoes of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Africa

    By Ronald Elly WANDA
    June 10, 2020
    Can Africans circumvent the on-going global health crisis through a return to indigenous knowledge systems?
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    Epidemics and Social Observation: Why Africa Needs a Different Approach to Covid-19

    By Paul Richards
    June 1, 2020
    Why haven’t social factors been more thoroughly scrutinised in the huge upsurge of scientific effort to combat Covid-19?
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    Kenya and Covid-19: Pandemic Response Risks Excluding Minority Groups

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    May 29, 2020
    Identity based welfare exclusion reinforces the Kenyan's state fault lines of power and access
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    من على البعد: دروس مفيدة من تجارب العون في الصومال والسودان لأزمة كوفيد-19*

    By Susanne Jaspars
    May 26, 2020
    Going Remote: Learning from Aid Practices in Somalia and Sudan for the Covid-19 Crisis
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    Covid-19 Underscores the Need to Overhaul Social Policies Across Africa

    By Nidhi Parekh
    May 13, 2020
    Covid-19 Underscores the Need to Overhaul Social Policies across Africa
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