{"id":552,"date":"2022-11-10T11:45:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T19:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/?p=552"},"modified":"2022-12-23T11:24:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T19:24:54","slug":"african-scientists-say-western-aid-to-fight-pandemic-is-backfiring-heres-their-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/african-scientists-say-western-aid-to-fight-pandemic-is-backfiring-heres-their-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"African scientists say Western aid to fight pandemic is backfiring. Here’s their plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Global health inequities are inevitable, according to virologist and former president of the Nigerian Academy of Sciences Oyewale Tomori.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The WHO is,” says Tomori, “well, I know the W stands for World, but sometimes I think it stands for White.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Tomori shared that he was not surprised that high-income countries were buying up\u00a0<\/span>monkeypox vaccine supplies<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and that WHO was sharing its vaccines with\u00a0<\/span>30 non-African countries<\/span><\/a>, leaving the continent\u00a0<\/span>without access<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fed up with their countries’ inadequate responses to Ebola, COVID-19, and now monkeypox, a growing movement of African scientists is advocating for improved biosecurity on the continent \u2013 that is, protection against pathogens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This article discusses four key strategies that will allow African countries to optimize resources to improve access to vaccines, eradicate ebola, and control future disease outbreaks. After all, Africa does not need to rely on Western philanthropy, says Dr. Tomori. “We’re not poor; it is that we’re not making good use of what we have.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Oyewale Tomori is a virologist at Redeemer’s University and the past president of the Nigerian Academy of Sciences. Western aid “is not helping us,” he says. “It’s making us more dependent.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Global health inequities are inevitable, according to virologist and former president of the Nigerian Academy of Sciences Oyewale Tomori. “The WHO is,” says Tomori, “well, I know the W stands for World, but sometimes I think it stands for White.” Dr. Tomori shared that he was not surprised that high-income countries were buying up\u00a0monkeypox vaccine supplies\u00a0and that WHO was sharing its vaccines with\u00a030 non-African countries, leaving the continent\u00a0without access.\u00a0 Fed up with their countries’ inadequate responses to Ebola, COVID-19, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[53,52,54,55,51,56],"media_type_reference":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-access-to-healthcare","category-medical-apartheid","tag-africa","tag-foreign-aid","tag-global-health-justice","tag-health-inequities","tag-vaccines","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"media_type_reference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type_reference?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}