Title of webinar:
COVID-19 in Retrospect: Drug R&D and Traditional Medicine in Africa
Hosted by:
Rhodes University, South Africa
Focus of webinar:
Among several lessons learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic in African is the urgency and necessity of improved health infrastructure to cater for emergencies now and in the near future. The marginalization faced by African states in the Covid-19 vaccine procurement and distribution framework (COVAX) shows without a doubt that solutions to enormous health challenges lie in home-grown initiatives. Such would take cognisance of the comparative advantage of the continent in the global medical marketplace as home to a diversity of pharmacologies and traditional healing epistemes. Such initiatives would have to break boundaries set by colonial and global health regimes by revealing alternative modernities that are alive outside mainstream public health discourses. This call is more critical because historically, Africans are generally medical pluralists. The rancours that accompanied the announcement of a potential cure to the Covid-19 virus reveals the huddles African pharmacologies would surmount before living up to full potentials on a continent that houses most of the world’s vulnerable populations. Click here to read more
Date:
11 June 2021
Time:
14:00 - 17:00 (South African Time)
Platform:
Zoom
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