Africa should tackle failures in technology sharing
Universities in Africa must be more vocal about the failures of higher education institutions in the Global North to challenge the status quo of innovation- and technology-sharing that is denying millions access to life-saving treatments, Sarai Keestra, a research coordinator of the Universities Allied for Essential Medicines in the United Kingdom has told
University World News.
In an e-mail exchange following a commentary she wrote in
BMJ Global Health she said: “African universities can hold universities in the Global North to account by actively voicing their concern about the way universities are currently contributing to preventable deaths and suffering when they fail to challenge the status quo of a biomedical innovation system that denies access to life-saving treatments for millions.”