Interest Groups and COVID-19 in Africa (2019-2022).
Africa
African Health Organization
COVID-19
ECSA Health Community
Ghana
Interest groups
West-African Health Organization
World Health Organization
Journal
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
ISSN: 0065-2598
Titre abrégé: Adv Exp Med Biol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0121103
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2024
2024
Historique:
medline:
17
9
2024
pubmed:
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9
2024
entrez:
16
9
2024
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The study highlights the crucial roles played by interest groups in shaping the definition and redefinition of policy issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. The study focused on selected countries to discuss strategies that were deployed to combat the COVID quandary. The selected countries are Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Egypt, and Tunisia. A purely qualitative research, it relied on existing literature sources to produce thematic analysis which explore the various strategies adopted by interest groups in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. The study revealed the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic to the already fragile healthcare system in Africa. Again, it revealed the innovative approaches such as herbal medicine and local production of ventilators developed by African countries to tackle COVID-19 including efforts of other interests groups like government agencies, private institutions and international organizations in the fight against COVID-19 in Africa.
Identifiants
pubmed: 39283435
doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-61939-7_18
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
323-342Informations de copyright
© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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