{"id":73384,"date":"2020-09-22T19:10:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T16:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/as-rich-nations-struggle-africas-virus-response-is-praised\/"},"modified":"2020-09-22T19:10:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T16:10:28","slug":"as-rich-nations-struggle-africas-virus-response-is-praised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/as-rich-nations-struggle-africas-virus-response-is-praised\/","title":{"rendered":"#As rich nations struggle, Africa\u2019s virus response is praised"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n JOHANNESBURG \u2014 At a lecture to peers this month, John Nkengasong showed images that once dogged Africa, with a magazine cover declaring it \u201cThe Hopeless Continent.\u201d Then he quoted Ghana\u2019s first president, Kwame Nkrumah: \u201cIt is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The coronavirus pandemic has fractured global relationships. But as director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Nkengasong has helped to steer Africa\u2019s 54 countries into an alliance praised as responding better than some richer countries, including the United States.<\/p>\n

A former U.S. CDC official, he modeled Africa\u2019s version after his ex-employer. Nkengasong is pained to see the U.S. agency struggle. In an interview with The Associated Press, he didn\u2019t name U.S President Donald Trump but cited \u201cfactors we all know.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the U.S. nears 200,000 COVID-19 deaths and the world app<\/a>roaches 1 million, Africa\u2019s surge<\/a> has been leveling off. Its 1.4 million confirmed cases are far from the horrors predicted. Antibody testing is expected to show many more infections,<\/a> but most cases are asymptomatic. Just over 34,000 deaths are confirmed on the continent of 1.3 billion people.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfrica is doing a lot of things right the rest of the world isn\u2019t,\u201d said Gayle Smith, a former administrator with the U.S. Agency for International Development. She\u2019s watched in astonishment as Washington looks inward instead of leading the world. But Africa \u201cis a great story and one that needs to be told.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nkengasong, whom the Gates Foundation honors Tuesday with its Global Goalkeeper Award as a \u201crelentless proponent of global collaboration,\u201d is the continent\u2019s most visible narrator. The Cameroon-born virologist insists that Africa can stand up to COVID-19 if given a fighting chance.<\/p>\n

Early modeling assumed \u201ca large number of Africans would just die,\u201d Nkengasong said. The Africa CDC decided not to issue projections. \u201cWhen I looked at the data and the assumptions, I wasn\u2019t convinced,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Health experts point to Africa\u2019s youthful population as a factor in why COVID-19 hasn\u2019t taken a larger toll, along with swift lockdowns and the later arrival of the virus.<\/p>\n

\u201cBe patient,\u201d Nkengasong said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot we still don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

He warns against complacency, saying a single case can spark a new surge.<\/p>\n

As Africa\u2019s top public health official, leading an agency launched only three years ago, he plunged into the race<\/a> for medical supplies and now a vaccine. At first, it was a shock.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe collapse of global cooperation and a failure of international solidarity have shoved Africa out of the diagnostics market,\u201d Nkengasong wrote in the journal Nature in April. \u201cIf Africa loses, the world loses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Supplies slowly improved, and African countries have conducted 13 million tests, enough to cover 1% of the continent\u2019s population. But the ideal is 13 million tests per month, Nkengasong said.<\/p>\n

He and other African leaders are haunted by the memories of 12 million Africans dying during the decade it took for affordable HIV drugs to reach the continent. That must not happen again, he said.<\/p>\n

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