West Africa’s Ebola Pandemic: Toward Effective Multilateral Responses to Health Crises

Ifediora, Obinna; Aning, Kwesi

doi:10.1163/19426720-02302006

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“…In this century, Northern Uganda faced the fourth epidemic in the fall of 2000. The 2014–2016 Ebola virus epidemic was the largest outbreak of the Ebola, considered a pandemic41 42. The outset was from Guinea and then moved to other countries such as Liberia and Sierra Leone.…”

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Impact of major disease outbreaks in the third millennium on adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health and rights in low and/or middle-income countries: a systematic scoping review protocol

Akbarialiabad

Shidhaye

et al. 2022

BMJ Open

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IntroductionSexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) of young people continue to present a high burden and remain underinvested. This is more so in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), where empirical evidence reveals disruption of SRHR maintenance, need for enhancement of programmes, resources and services during pandemics. Despite the importance of the subject, there is no published review yet combining recent disease outbreaks such as (H1N1/09, Zika, Ebola and SARS-COV-2) to assess their impact on adolescents and youth SRHR in LMICs.Methods and analysisWe will adopt a four-step search to reach the maximum possible number of studies. In the first step, we will carry out a limitedpreliminary search in databases for getting relevant keywords (appendix 1). Second, we will search in four databases: Pubmed, Cochrane Library, Embase and PsycINFO. The search would begin from the inception of the first major outbreak in 2009 (H1N1/09) up to the date of publication of the protocol in early 2022. We will search databases using related keywords, screen title & abstract and review full texts of the selected titles to arrive at the list of eligible studies. In the third stage, we will check their eligibility to the included article’s reference list. In the fourth stage, we will check the citations of included papers in phase 2 to complete our study selection. We will include all types of original studies and without any language restriction in our final synthesis. Our review results will be charted for each pandemic separately and include details pertaining to authors, year, country, region of the study, study design, participants (disaggregated by age and gender), purpose and report associated SRHR outcomes. The review will adhere to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews guideline (PRISMA-ScR).Patient and public involvementPatients or public were not involved in this study.Ethics and disseminationEthical assessment is not required for this study. The results of the study will be presented in peer-reviewed publications and conferences on adolescent SRHR.

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Section: Research Questionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of major disease outbreaks in the third millennium on adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health and rights in low and/or middle-income countries: a systematic scoping review protocol

Akbarialiabad

Shidhaye

et al. 2022

BMJ Open

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“…87 There have also been calls to strengthen regional health governance and global–regional collaboration in view of the insufficient health emergency response capacity. 88 …”

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Global health diplomacy—reconstructing power and governance

Kickbusch¹,

Liu²

2022

The Lancet

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“…As Africa accounts for approximately two-thirds of the people living with HIV/AIDS in the world, the global response to HIV/AIDS in Africa has provided a seminal case study through which to explore multi-level and multi-sectorial governance of health and broader human security, including issues of coordination, hierarchy, and partnership (McInnes, 2006; Poku et al ., 2007; Brown, 2009). More recently, the Ebola pandemic in West Africa offered a valuable case with which to investigate the harmonisation of the regional and global governance of health crises (Ifediora and Aning, 2017). Africa has therefore provided a paradigmatic, textbook case for the development of health governance theories and practices, exercising a major influence on the research agenda of governance and security studies well beyond the continent's boundaries (Elbe, 2008; MacLean and MacLean, 2009).…”

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The place of Africa in international relations: the centrality of the margins in Global IR

Raineri

Baldaro²

2021

Riv. ital. sci. polit.

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The Global IR research agenda lays emphasis on the marginalised, non-Western forms of power and knowledge that underpin today's international system. Focusing on Africa, this article questions two fundamental assumptions of this approach, arguing that they err by excess of realism – in two different ways. First, the claim that Africa is marginal to international relations (IR) thinking holds true only as long as one makes the whole of IR discipline coincide with the Realist school. Second, the Global IR commitment to better appreciate ‘non-Western’ contributions is ontologically realist, because it fails to recognise that the West and the non-West are dialectically constitutive of one another. To demonstrate this, the article first shows that Africa has moved from the periphery to the core of IR scholarship: in the post-paradigmatic phase, Africa is no longer a mere provider of deviant cases, but a laboratory for theory-building of general validity. In the second part, the Sahel provides a case for unsettling reified conceptions of Africa's conceptual and geographical boundaries through the dialectical articulation of the inside/outside dichotomy. Questioning the ‘place’ of Africa in IR – both as identity and function – thus paves the way to a ‘less realist’ approach to Global IR.

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West Africa’s Ebola Pandemic: Toward Effective Multilateral Responses to Health Crises

Cited by 17 publications

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Impact of major disease outbreaks in the third millennium on adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health and rights in low and/or middle-income countries: a systematic scoping review protocol

Impact of major disease outbreaks in the third millennium on adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health and rights in low and/or middle-income countries: a systematic scoping review protocol

Global health diplomacy—reconstructing power and governance

The place of Africa in international relations: the centrality of the margins in Global IR

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