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    Contact Tracing: Learning Lessons from Sierra Leone

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    Some Lessons from the History of Epidemics in Africa

    The history of endemic diseases epidemics and pandemics in Africa shows that the continent has had a long experience of biomedicine
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    Response Piece by Paul Richards to Alex de Waal's piece; Can There Be A Democratic Public Health?
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