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Africa’s life-sustaining water towers have been overlooked for too …
WEBBy 2050, when Africa’s population is projected to reach close to 2.5 billion, demand for already limited fresh water will be even higher. Yet it’s not all doom and gloom. Despite being water-stressed, Africa is endowed with many “natural water towers”, a critical nature-based solution to water and climate challenges.
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Africa Can Improve Future Health Systems Resilience by …
WEBDebating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond.It will offer debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from …
19 years ago today, African countries vowed to spend 15% on …
WEBRead all our COVID-19 coverage. On 27 April 2001, exactly 19 years ago today, African governments made an historic pledge to allocate at least 15% of their annual budgets to the health sector. This vow became known as the Abuja Declaration. As COVID-19 spreads and wreak havoc across the world, the question must be asked: What …
Mental health in Africa: The need for a new approach
WEBInnovations, many pioneered in Africa, are making mental health treatment more possible and affordable, but more needs to be done. Joshua lives in Sierra Leone. His friends and family suffered heavily through the trauma of the civil war in the 1990s, the Ebola epidemic that ravaged the country more recently, and the catastrophic mud slides …
Zimbabwe struggles to provide mental health support amid rising …
WEBAlthough Zimbabwe’s spending on health care increased during the pandemic to 13% of the national budget — pushing it closer to the 15% recommended by the 2001 Abuja Declaration by African Union member states — spending on noncommunicable diseases fell steeply from 1.9% in 2020 to 0.3% in 2021, according to …
Barefoot Doctors and Pandemics: Ethiopia's
WEBBarefoot Doctors and Pandemics: Ethiopia’s Experience and Covid-19 in Africa. Debating Ideas is a new section run separately from the main African Arguments site. It aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the
Kenya: The new government’s chance to secure reproductive rights
WEBKenya’s sexual health rights are beholden to US decisionmakers. New legislators must take back control. For too long, sexual and reproductive rights in Kenya have operated in a vacuum. Despite the constitution providing for the “highest attainable standard” of reproductive health, legislators have failed to enact any legislation on the …
Surviving COVID-19: Fragility, Resilience and Inequality in Zimbabwe
WEBZimbabwe had three confirmed cases and one recorded death of COVID-19 (coronavirus) as of 26 March, and a national disaster has been declared.So far suspected cases have been limited, but once the virus spreads through the population, it could be devastating. In thinking about COVID-19 in Zimbabwe, and in Africa more broadly, three …
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Unlocking Medicine Access in Africa: The complementary role of …
WEBOluwaseun Afuye, Remi Adeseun & Mara Hansen Staples. Oluwaseun Afuye is a Senior Consultant at Salient Advisory where he leads analyses of health tech regulations across Africa, and supports Salient's work on Investing in Innovation, a pan-African program to better support the commercialization and impact of health tech …
Covid-19, the Working Class and the Poor in South Africa
WEBWhile Covid-19 as epidemiology threatens all sections of society, the accompanying social crisis deepens existing social differentiation. The Black [2] working class and poor are the most affected. They carry the burden of the healthcare needs of society as nurses, cleaners in hospitals and fumigators of spaces where cases are …
Medical Colonialism: Pandemic Impacts and Vaccine Delivery
WEBMedical Colonialism: Pandemic Impacts and Vaccine Delivery. By Toby Green. December 17, 2021. 0. Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and …
Agbogbloshie: A Year after the Violent Demolition
WEBThe Agbogbloshie scrapyard is infamous. The site has attracted the “Western gaze” for over two decades now. It is a key location for e-waste journalism, science and advocacy, often taking centre stage in global e-waste policy work.You may know it as “Africa’s e-waste nightmare”,“electronics graveyard”, “a digital dumping ground”, “e-hell …
Leveraging the African Union’s Role in the Time of Covid-19
WEBEqually, Africa’s two-way trade with China grew by 2.2 percent in 2019 to a tune of US$208.7 billion, whereas the EU-African trade statistics show that the 27 countries of the EU were the biggest goods exporters into Africa with a total value of nearly US$170 billion in 2018. Additionally, the United Kingdom and Russia have also positioned
Love (from Afar) in the Time of Covid-19: Diaspora …
WEBDebating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond.It will offer debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from …
Gambians pursuit of justice for Jammeh’s bogus AIDS cure
WEBIn January 2007, The Gambia’s then-president Yahya Jammeh declared to the world that he could cure HIV/AIDS with a herbal concoction. Soon after, he established a nightmarish “treatment programme” to administer this destructive hoax. The gruesome details of this scheme are laid out in full detail in the final report released by the Truth, …
Some Lessons from the History of Epidemics in Africa
WEBThe doctors failed to recognize that many apparently healthy people were carriers of the parasite and would infect the communities in their new places of forced residence. By the time the epidemic declined, around 1908, it had killed more than 250,000 people in a huge sub-region of the African Great Lakes.
Six African documentaries you must see African Arguments
WEBBecoming Black - 2020 - Trailer. Watch on. In this piercing documentary, director Ines Johnson-Spain digs back to 1960s Germany and excavates the ghosts surrounding the events of her birth. Growing up mixed race in an otherwise lily-white family, Johnson-Spain always felt different and out of place even when everyone around her …
The truth about black hair African Arguments
WEBThe first is that natural hair is “dirty”. The second is about the extent to which natural hair grows – hence the obsession with hair length, extensions and dreadlocks. Many black women and men who wear weaves and relax their hair will explain their choice by either saying that their natural hair is “unmanageable” or that natural hair
An assessment of President Hichilema’s first year in Zambia
WEBAn assessment of President Hichilema’s first year in Zambia. By Sishuwa Sishuwa. August 24, 2022. 2. The new president came to power promising widespread change. A year on, his supporters see him as a saviour, his critics as an abject failure. President Hakainde Hichilema giving a speech at the European Parliament in June 2022.
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