Covid-19: what does Africa offer?

By: Alain Foka

How about we listen to Africans too? How are continental scientists mobilized in the fight against Covid-19? What financial means do they have?

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Can they explain why to date the virus seems to be growing more slowly in Africa than in Europe for example? What do they think of the use of hydroxychloroquine and Covid-Organics, the remedy validated by Madagascar?

With our guests:
- Lucile Cornet-Vernet , orthodontist, founder of the NGO “La maison de l'Artemisia”
- Dr Bruno Tengang , pulmonologist at the Center for respiratory diseases in Douala (Cameroon)
- Pr Mireille Dosso , professor of Microbiology, Director of the Pasteur Institute in Côte d'Ivoire
- Abdoulaye Touré , Professor of Public Health, Director of the Research and Training Center in Infectious Disease in Guinea and Director of the National Institute of Public Health in Guinea. Member of the Covid-19 interdisciplinary and partnership scientific committee and of the ARIACOV project (action research project in support of the African response to the Covid-19 epidemic).

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