UoN Prize Presentation Ceremony, 2021
The University of Nairobi has organized a Prize Giving Ceremony for 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 Academic Years scheduled for 7th May, 2021.
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Towards a coordinated strategy for intercepting human disease emergence in Africa
Emerging zoonotic viruses are one of the greatest threats to human health and security, as evidenced by the increasing frequency of disease outbreaks.
To date, the main pre-emptive response to these outbreaks has been extensive, cost-heavy efforts to document virus diversity in wildlife (eg, PREDICT and the Global Virome Projects).
Allocation of scarce resources in Africa during COVID‐19: Utility and justice for the bottom of the pyramid?
Abstract
The COVID‐19 pandemic has raised important universal public health challenges. Conceiving ethical responses to these challenges is a public health imperative but must take context into account. This is particularly important in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). In this paper, we examine how some of the ethical recommendations offered so far in high‐income countries might appear from a SSA perspective.