Coronavirus in Africa

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Members of the Senegalese health and hygiene services prepare to disinfect the streets of a market in Dakar to fight against the coronavirus, March 22, 2020. REUTERS / Zohra Bensemra

By: Caroline Paré Follow

Each week, we now devote a special program to the response to Covid-19 in sub-Saharan Africa. Public awareness, national and regional decisions to curb the spread of the pandemic, cooperation and mobilization of international health authorities ... We also give a lot of space to answers to questions from listeners.

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How to spread awareness messages? Should we adapt them? How are already vulnerable health services and understaffed caregivers preparing to face the epidemic?

  • Dr Massamba Sassoun Diop, emergency doctor and president of SOS-Médecins in Dakar , Senegal
  • Pr Serge Eholié, President of the African Society of Infectious Pathologies
  • Dr Abdoulaye Bousso, director of the health emergency operations center at the Ministry of Health and Social Action in Dakar, Senegal
  • Pr Jean-Jacques Muyembé , Director General of the National Biomedical Research Institute (INRB) of Kinshasa, national coordinator of the Covid-19 response in the DRC. First researcher to visit the site of the very first Ebola epidemic in 1976 in the DRC. Winner of the 2015 Christophe Mérieux Prize from the Institut de France .

  • Dr Olivier Kana , General practitioner, coordinator of the NGO Gardiens de Vies (Gavies) in Kinshasa in the DRC.

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