Local evidence crucial in Africa’s responsesKenyatta National Hospital (KNH) health workers in full personal protective equipment (PPE) display packed swab samples during the KNH's mass staff testing for COVID-19. For instance, Nigeria and Togo among other West African countries can test 1,500 patients each day. Documenting evidence on the lessons from African countries that experienced and addressed Ebola could also be valuable in designing country responses to COVID-19. Certainly African leaders need evidence from African contexts and other similar contexts to provide practical policies and programmatic solutions to Covid-19. This context-sensitive evidence needs to inform the adaptation of global solutions to COVID-19 so that these are more responsive to Africa’s unique context.

Source: Standard Digital April 16, 2020 02:03 UTC