Aswan Forum: Put healthcare, including vaccines, at the center of rebuilding Africa back better and more resilient - WHO, African Development Bank, Africa CDC
WHO, African Development Bank and Africa CDC call for coordinated vaccination rollout and investments in local manufacture of drugs and diagnostics as a defense system for Africa
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, March 2, 2021/APO Group/
Africa must protect itself against future pandemics and other shocks through higher investment in primary healthcare and increased local manufacturing of key medical products, panelists at the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development urged on Monday.
Egypt hosted the virtual, second edition of the meeting, titled Shaping Africa’s New Normal: Recovering Stronger, Rebuilding Better’.
What: Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development II
Who: Government of Egypt
When: 1-5 March 2021
Where: Virtual – register here: https://aswanforum2.vfairs.com/
Egypt will host the second edition of the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development under the title Shaping Africa’s New Normal: Recovering Stronger, Rebuilding Better.
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With the exception of some flashpoints in Northern and Southern Africa, the continent has been largely spared from the direct health effect of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the African economy has been significantly hurt by the economic consequences of Covid-19, which piled on other ongoing calamities such as the locust crisis devasting crops across the continent (Evenett and Baldwin 2021). Economies in the continent are heavily dependent on commodity exports (Arezki and Fan 2020), foreign direct investment, remittances, aid as well as tourism – a sector which has been devastated by the pandemic and is unlikely to recover quickly (Djankov 2020).