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Africans should lead on health care solutions for Africa

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Francisca Mutapi |

TEDWomen 2021

• December 2021

TED Fellow and global health researcher Francisca Mutapi discusses how COVID-19 responses borrowed from the West created significant obstacles for other public health programs in Africa -- and makes the case for the continent to chart out its own health care policies. "The solutions to Africa's health problems must be home-grown and must be led by Africans," she says.

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TED Fellow and global health researcher Francisca Mutapi discusses how COVID-19 responses borrowed from the West created significant obstacles for other public health programs in Africa -- and makes the case for the continent to chart out its own health care policies. "The solutions to Africa's health problems must be home-grown and must be led by Africans," she says.

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Join us in accelerating research excellence in Africa. See details in this article by Francisca Mutapi.

Join us in empowering, enabling and encouraging the next generation of Africans to reach their potential in education, ambition and contribution to the human condition by supporting Mwenje Wedu Trust.

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Francisca Mutapi

Global health researcher

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TED Fellow Francisca Mutapi advocates for locally led solutions to eliminate preventable and treatable infectious diseases.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference.

Read our curation guidelines.

Join us in accelerating research excellence in Africa. See details in this article by Francisca Mutapi.

Join us in empowering, enabling and encouraging the next generation of Africans to reach their potential in education, ambition and contribution to the human condition by supporting Mwenje Wedu Trust.