March 10, 2022
There has been a raging debate surrounding the state of our healthcare systems in Africa. More than once, Africans have denounced the tendency of the …
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The goal is to cover Africans first. Then, and only then, would Africa begin to attract foreigners.
In regard to public health, our culture should be adjusted to the current needs and not past realities
Africans ought to confidently explore their traditional medical practices and integrate those found to be efficient into modern medicine.
The Covid-19 pandemic – like the HIV/AIDS pandemic before it – threatens to become an endemic disease because important lessons were not learned.
If the world is to defeat this pandemic, a value system that shuns duplicity and embraces cooperation instead of competition for supremacy is long overdue.
Only those who see the bigger picture will be able to achieve universal health coverage for their people.
African governments must recognise the social, economic and psychological factors affecting health outcomes, which is the only way to craft long-term solutions to the challenges we face.
Very young children are now daily being diagnosed as diabetic in different parts of the continent.
Westernization convinced Africans to turn their backs on the chewing stick and adopt the imported toothpaste and toothbrush, such that the African chewing stick is now consigned to the much older populations found in rural areas.
It is time for Africans to realise the dangers of adopting other people’s ways of life without deeper reflection around the consequences of these imports on African lives.
The goal is to cover Africans first. Then, and only then, would Africa begin to attract foreigners.
In regard to public health, our culture should be adjusted to the current needs and not past realities
Africans ought to confidently explore their traditional medical practices and integrate those found to be efficient into modern medicine.
The Covid-19 pandemic – like the HIV/AIDS pandemic before it – threatens to become an endemic disease because important lessons were not learned.
If the world is to defeat this pandemic, a value system that shuns duplicity and embraces cooperation instead of competition for supremacy is long overdue.
Only those who see the bigger picture will be able to achieve universal health coverage for their people.
African governments must recognise the social, economic and psychological factors affecting health outcomes, which is the only way to craft long-term solutions to the challenges we face.
Very young children are now daily being diagnosed as diabetic in different parts of the continent.
Westernization convinced Africans to turn their backs on the chewing stick and adopt the imported toothpaste and toothbrush, such that the African chewing stick is now consigned to the much older populations found in rural areas.
It is time for Africans to realise the dangers of adopting other people’s ways of life without deeper reflection around the consequences of these imports on African lives.
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Part of the problem facing Africa is that the agency to articulate the trials and tribulations of Africans has for long been usurped by foreigners. As a principle, everyone should get involved in debates on Africa, of course. However, rather than Read more