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Going Public: How Africa’s integration can work for the poor
In the heyday of African nationalism, the continent’s founding fathers plotted their vision of pan-African unity. The twin paths of closer political and economic integration appeared to them as the...
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Patience and Care: Rebuilding nursing and midwifery, in Somaliland
Somaliland’s maternal, infant, and child mortality rates are among the highest in the world. A rudimentary health system already beset by under-investment and neglect collapsed completely during the...
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Ebola and Sierra Leone: health care at breaking point
In the first of a series of blogs about the impact and consequences of the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, ARI researcher Jamie Hitchen, recently back from a year spent working in the country, focuses...
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Ebola in Sierra Leone: The Cost of Living on the Margins
In the second of a series of blogs about the impact and consequences of Ebola in Sierra Leone, ARI researcher Jamie Hitchen, recently back from a year spent working in the country, focuses on new...
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Mismanagement of Sierra Leone’s Ebola spending by Jamie Hitchen
In May-October 2014 the Sierra Leone government spent more than 84 billion Leones (Le) (approx. US$19m) tackling the Ebola epidemic. A damning report by the Auditor-General, Lara Taylor-Pearce, was...
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23 April event: Africa’s Natural Remedies The transformative potential of...
On Thursday 23 April 2015, ARI launched “Modern African Remedies” by Father Anselm Adodo, the founder of Paxherbals, Nigeria’s foremost herbal medicine manufacturer. Father Anselm spoke passionately...
View ArticleResearch Diary: Herbal medicine in Nigeria By Jamie Hitchen
Policy Voices are collaborations between ARI and leading practitioners in sub-Saharan Africa, which seek to inform policy through first-hand knowledge and experience. Researcher Jamie Hitchen spent a...
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Modern African Remedies: Herbal Medicine and Community Development in Nigeria
Download the Policy Voice Despite its middle-income status, Nigeria’s health system cannot provide even a rudimentary level of care for most citizens – particularly in rural areas. As the prevalence...
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Contemplating collaboration: Traditional medicine, biomedicine, and...
Throughout Africa, reports of national biomedical systems being unable to provide sufficient care for their citizens, especially in rural areas, are increasingly common. In Cameroon, doctor-to-patient...
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Nursing the Future: e-learning and clinical care, in Kenya By Angela Nguku
Few tests of the new methods of e-learning can be more exacting than to improve standards of clinical care by hard-pressed nurses in Kenya’s busy hospitals and clinics. But such is the ambition which...
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