Lectures

November 12, 2021

Intersections of Political Power, Religion, and Public Health in Africa: Covid-19, Tanzanian President Magufuli, and Nigerian Prophet T. B. Joshua

This article is part of the series: Contested Truths

This is the final piece in the Contested Truths series, which has been edited by Jia Hui Lee, Laura A. Meek, and Jacob Katumusiime Mwine-Kyarimpa. This series analyzes the manufacturing, circulation, and interpretation of contested truths over Covid-19 in Africa, including the ways in which official, institutional, and/or scientific facts and recommendations about COVID-19 are challenged, ignored, or subverted …

Lectures

April 29, 2021

Situating COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Tanzania

By Tom Nyalile and Leanne Loo

This article is part of the series: Contested Truths

In early February 2021, Tanzanian Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima announced that the Tanzanian government would not partake in COVID-19 vaccination campaigns—“we are not yet satisfied that those vaccines have been clinically proven safe.” Instead, Gwajima shared that the Government Chemist was testing and approving natural local remedies, where “these traditional remedies have been in use for ages in our societies …

Lectures

February 26, 2021

Chronic caring in unstable landscapes

By Josien de Klerk and Eileen Moyer

This article is part of the series: Chronic living

The current ‘end of AIDS era,’ referred to as Treat All in policy circles,is characterized by the primary aim of identifying and putting all HIV-positive people on antiretroviral treatment (ART) as quickly as possible following diagnosis (Kenworthy, et al 2017). Under Treat All, life-long pharmaceutical treatment is increasingly initiated in healthy bodies as part of a broad …

Lectures

April 20, 2020

The hype and hope of data for healthcare in Africa

By Tom Neumark

This article is part of the series: Health for all? Critical perspectives on Universal Health Coverage

Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes.

“Health for All?” critically explores global moves towards Universal Health Coverage and its language of rights to health, equity, social justice and the public good. Highlighting emerging ethnographic and historical research by both young

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Features

April 15, 2019

(Un)Categorizing Albinism

By Giorgio Brocco

This article is part of the series: Disability from the South: Toward a Lexicon

“Everything started with a little spot in the head, right up [by] my right ear! I don’t even remember the precise day or week I discovered it. Instead, I remember that it still hurts and I have a persistent headache!” Fadhili said with a feeble voice brightened by a soft smile. As our discussion of his health continued, he kept …

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Tag Archives: Tanzania

Intersections of Political Power, Religion, and Public Health in Africa: Covid-19, Tanzanian President Magufuli, and Nigerian Prophet T. B. Joshua

Situating COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Tanzania

Chronic caring in unstable landscapes

The hype and hope of data for healthcare in Africa

“Health for All?” critically explores global moves towards Universal Health Coverage and its language of rights to health, equity, social justice and the public good. Highlighting emerging ethnographic and historical research by both young

(Un)Categorizing Albinism