Africa is responding to an active Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — in a global health landscape that has shifted sharply beneath it. Financing is being reconfigured, donor commitments have contracted, and the surveillance, treatment and workforce arrangements Africa has relied on for two decades can no longer be assumed.
This webinar, hosted by CAPRISA and Physicians for Human Rights, brings together:
- Professor Salim Abdool Karim —CAPRISA
- Karen Naimer — Physicians for Human Rights
- Chris Kerkering —Katiba Institute
- Dr Paluku Lwanzo Pablo — Médecin Chef de Zone, Zone de Santé de Butembo, North Kivu, DRC Moderated by Paula Fray — Publisher, bird story agency
Together they examined the rights implications of the outbreak, the operational realities facing clinicians and health authorities, and the legal and political tools available to hold responses to account — and ask what a more self-reliant, equitable and accountable pandemic response for Africa could look like.