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Home Covid-19 Responses to Covid-19 must focus on communities and not just past epidemics

Responses to Covid-19 must focus on communities and not just past epidemics

In the current global pandemic, there is a lot that can be learned from past epidemics. What is poignantly missing, however, is acknowledgement of local perspectives to disease outbreak and  response. Jeremy Allouche and Dienedort Wandji argue we need to better understand how individuals and local communities in Africa, and beyond, have learnt and developed social, cultural and institutional mechanisms to deal with protracted crises.

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