COVID-19 Vaccine Nationalism Limits Africa’s Options 11/07/2020 Paul Adepoju Ibadan, Nigeria – The World Health Organisation (WHO) is advocating for equitable access to effective COVID-19 vaccines but developments surrounding the race to a vaccine suggest this may be extremely difficult. And health policy leaders in Africa and other low and middle-income countries are increasingly worried about their prospects for being pushed to the back […] Continue reading -> Don’t Sneeze In Flight: Africa Begins Long Journey To Safe Resumption Of Air Travel 03/07/2020 Paul Adepoju Ibadan, Nigeria – The first time that businessman Soji Adegbite missed his flight, he was heading to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from Nigeria’s Murtala Muhammed International Airport located in Africa’s largest city of Lagos. “I got there just five minutes late but that was all it took to miss the flight,” he told Health Policy Watch. […] Continue reading -> Gender-Based Violence – The “Shadow Pandemic” Of COVID-19 26/06/2020 Paul Adepoju Ibadan, Nigeria – Twenty-two year-old Uwaila Vera Omozuwa, freshly admitted to university, had retreated to study in a church in the city of Benin, Nigeria during lockdown, when she was raped and killed on May 30. The following day, 18-year-old Barakat Bello was reportedly raped and killed in Oyo state. 29-year-old Azeezat Shomuyiwa and 21-year-old […] Continue reading -> Africa Must Develop Its Own Solutions To COVID-19, Say Experts Across The Continent 19/06/2020 Paul Adepoju 19 June 2020 (Ibadan, Nigeria) – We are at war with COVID-19, a war we must win to survive, said Dr John Nkengasong, Director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control, on Friday at a workshop on “Home-Grown Solutions to the COVID-19 Health Crisis,” hosted by the United Nations Development Programme. Since the continent’s first confirmed […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Newer posts
Don’t Sneeze In Flight: Africa Begins Long Journey To Safe Resumption Of Air Travel 03/07/2020 Paul Adepoju Ibadan, Nigeria – The first time that businessman Soji Adegbite missed his flight, he was heading to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from Nigeria’s Murtala Muhammed International Airport located in Africa’s largest city of Lagos. “I got there just five minutes late but that was all it took to miss the flight,” he told Health Policy Watch. […] Continue reading -> Gender-Based Violence – The “Shadow Pandemic” Of COVID-19 26/06/2020 Paul Adepoju Ibadan, Nigeria – Twenty-two year-old Uwaila Vera Omozuwa, freshly admitted to university, had retreated to study in a church in the city of Benin, Nigeria during lockdown, when she was raped and killed on May 30. The following day, 18-year-old Barakat Bello was reportedly raped and killed in Oyo state. 29-year-old Azeezat Shomuyiwa and 21-year-old […] Continue reading -> Africa Must Develop Its Own Solutions To COVID-19, Say Experts Across The Continent 19/06/2020 Paul Adepoju 19 June 2020 (Ibadan, Nigeria) – We are at war with COVID-19, a war we must win to survive, said Dr John Nkengasong, Director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control, on Friday at a workshop on “Home-Grown Solutions to the COVID-19 Health Crisis,” hosted by the United Nations Development Programme. Since the continent’s first confirmed […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Newer posts
Gender-Based Violence – The “Shadow Pandemic” Of COVID-19 26/06/2020 Paul Adepoju Ibadan, Nigeria – Twenty-two year-old Uwaila Vera Omozuwa, freshly admitted to university, had retreated to study in a church in the city of Benin, Nigeria during lockdown, when she was raped and killed on May 30. The following day, 18-year-old Barakat Bello was reportedly raped and killed in Oyo state. 29-year-old Azeezat Shomuyiwa and 21-year-old […] Continue reading -> Africa Must Develop Its Own Solutions To COVID-19, Say Experts Across The Continent 19/06/2020 Paul Adepoju 19 June 2020 (Ibadan, Nigeria) – We are at war with COVID-19, a war we must win to survive, said Dr John Nkengasong, Director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control, on Friday at a workshop on “Home-Grown Solutions to the COVID-19 Health Crisis,” hosted by the United Nations Development Programme. Since the continent’s first confirmed […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Newer posts
Africa Must Develop Its Own Solutions To COVID-19, Say Experts Across The Continent 19/06/2020 Paul Adepoju 19 June 2020 (Ibadan, Nigeria) – We are at war with COVID-19, a war we must win to survive, said Dr John Nkengasong, Director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control, on Friday at a workshop on “Home-Grown Solutions to the COVID-19 Health Crisis,” hosted by the United Nations Development Programme. Since the continent’s first confirmed […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Newer posts