Editorial: African Perspectives and Approaches for African Healthcare Challenges

Lessons from the Ebola epidemics and their applications for COVID‐19 pandemic response in sub‐Saharan Africa

“…Member countries from SSA face challenges with attaining the required technical skills needed to engage on the platform fully.The gaps are likely to have been identified through the WHO-led Joint External Evaluations process but have remained unrectified due to financial challenges. This causes an ethical quagmire, as the inequitable distribution of resources, and poor country capacity to build technical expertise for planning and preparing for outbreak, epidemic and pandemic responses may be exaggerated by the inefficient use of the limited financial resources by the countries 60. 3 | D ISCUSS I ONAlthough the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in SSA is currently low compared to the number of confirmed cases in Europe and the United States, the region's weak and poorly resilient health systems, poor emergency preparedness, low testing, and poor contact tracing, are causes for concerns about effective management of the COVID-19 pandemic.…”