Pacing Forward in the Face of Fragility: Lessons From African Institutions and Governments' Response to Public Health Emergencies

Africa is home to 54 United Nation member states, each possessing a wealth of ethno-cultural, physiographic, and economic diversity. While Africa is credited as having the youngest population in the world, it also exhibits a unique set of “unfortunate realties” ranging from famine and poverty to vol...

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Autores principales:	Byron Bitanihirwe, Derrick Ssewanyana, Ismael Ddumba-Nyanzi
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	Africa COVID-19 Ebola education locust swarms innovation Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:eb021eee0f2a4aefa7bea766fd8f50262021-11-30T23:52:47ZPacing Forward in the Face of Fragility: Lessons From African Institutions and Governments' Response to Public Health Emergencies2296-256510.3389/fpubh.2021.714812https://doaj.org/article/eb021eee0f2a4aefa7bea766fd8f50262021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.714812/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/2296-2565Africa is home to 54 United Nation member states, each possessing a wealth of ethno-cultural, physiographic, and economic diversity. While Africa is credited as having the youngest population in the world, it also exhibits a unique set of “unfortunate realties” ranging from famine and poverty to volatile politics, conflicts, and diseases. These unfortunate realities all converge around social inequalities in health, that are compounded by fragile healthcare systems and a lack of political will by the continent's leaders to improve smart investment and infrastructure planning for the benefit of its people. Noteworthy are the disparities in responsive approaches to crises and emergencies that exist across African governments and institutions. In this context, the present article draws attention to 3 distinct public health emergencies (PHEs) that have occurred in Africa since 2010. We focus on the 2013–2016 Ebola outbreak in Western Africa, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which continues to spread throughout the continent, and the destructive locust swarms that ravaged crops across East Africa in 2020. Our aim is to provide an integrated perspective on how governments and institutions handled these PHEs and how scientific and technological innovation, along with educational response played a role in the decision-making process. We conclude by touching on public health policies and strategies to address the development of sustainable health care systems with the potential to improve the health and well-being of the African people.Byron BitanihirweDerrick SsewanyanaIsmael Ddumba-NyanziFrontiers Media S.A.articleAfricaCOVID-19Ebolaeducationlocust swarmsinnovationPublic aspects of medicineRA1-1270ENFrontiers in Public Health, Vol 9 (2021)
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description	Africa is home to 54 United Nation member states, each possessing a wealth of ethno-cultural, physiographic, and economic diversity. While Africa is credited as having the youngest population in the world, it also exhibits a unique set of “unfortunate realties” ranging from famine and poverty to volatile politics, conflicts, and diseases. These unfortunate realities all converge around social inequalities in health, that are compounded by fragile healthcare systems and a lack of political will by the continent's leaders to improve smart investment and infrastructure planning for the benefit of its people. Noteworthy are the disparities in responsive approaches to crises and emergencies that exist across African governments and institutions. In this context, the present article draws attention to 3 distinct public health emergencies (PHEs) that have occurred in Africa since 2010. We focus on the 2013–2016 Ebola outbreak in Western Africa, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which continues to spread throughout the continent, and the destructive locust swarms that ravaged crops across East Africa in 2020. Our aim is to provide an integrated perspective on how governments and institutions handled these PHEs and how scientific and technological innovation, along with educational response played a role in the decision-making process. We conclude by touching on public health policies and strategies to address the development of sustainable health care systems with the potential to improve the health and well-being of the African people.
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title	Pacing Forward in the Face of Fragility: Lessons From African Institutions and Governments' Response to Public Health Emergencies
title_short	Pacing Forward in the Face of Fragility: Lessons From African Institutions and Governments' Response to Public Health Emergencies
title_full	Pacing Forward in the Face of Fragility: Lessons From African Institutions and Governments' Response to Public Health Emergencies
title_fullStr	Pacing Forward in the Face of Fragility: Lessons From African Institutions and Governments' Response to Public Health Emergencies
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title_sort	pacing forward in the face of fragility: lessons from african institutions and governments' response to public health emergencies
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Pacing Forward in the Face of Fragility: Lessons From African Institutions and Governments' Response to Public Health Emergencies

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