Pandemic: what impact on the continent?

By: Caroline Lachowsky

Covid pandemic or 'empty pocket' pandemic? Seen from Afriqu, how to meet health and socio-economic challenges? What strategy for the south? Perspectives of researchers from the continent 

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Let us change our perspective on the pandemic that strikes us and ask ourselves, seen from Africa, on its impact for the continent where this pandemic of covid is also called pandemic of empty pocket. How to meet the challenges, not only health but also and above all economic, social and political. What strategies to adopt in the different countries of the continent, what role can African scientists play? How can their experience of Ebola and so many other emerging or re-emerging diseases inspire us? What about research on plants and molecules used in traditional medicine? So many questions that we will raise without tongue in cheek with our guests, all involved and very engaged in research on the content. How to turn this terrible crisis into an opportunity?

With Youssef Travaly (Vice-President of the Next Einstein Forum (NEF) in charge of scientific innovation and institutional partnerships for the global network of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS).

Boubacar Haïdara , teacher at the University of Ségou in Mali, associate researcher at the laboratory Les Afriques dans le Monde (LAM) UMR 5115 of CNRS and science po Bordeaux, University Bordeaux Montaigne) His article: "the Malian experience in management of the 19 "Covid pandemic here

Vidushi Neergheen , lecturer in the Department of Health and at the Center for Biomedical and Biomaterials Research at the University of Mauritius. 

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