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Comment on Infographic: African SDRs – How they are used, distributed, and what needs to change by Beyond Soft Loans: Why International Finance | Global Courant - Breaking News, World Events, and Analysis

Mon, 29 May 2023 10:31:49 +0000

[…] scale is reflected in the IMF’s SDR allocation for 2021, which shows African countries about 5% of the total US$650 billion allocation, totaling US$33.8 billion. While the SDRs were established in 1969 after the […]

Comment on Infographic: African countries had to spend billions to manage COVID-19 in 2021 by Beyond Soft Loans: Why International Finance | Global Courant - Breaking News, World Events, and Analysis

Mon, 29 May 2023 10:29:25 +0000

[…] scale required, and many have been short-lived and relatively expensive. To put this in context, our calculations suggest that African governments spent about $130 billion over the period 2020-2021 to respond to […]

Comment on Infographic: African SDRs – How they are used, distributed, and what needs to change by Beyond soft loans: Why international financial reform is essential for developing countries - Emperium store

Mon, 29 May 2023 10:14:53 +0000

[…] can be seen in the IMF’s 2021 SDR allocation which saw African countries receive approximately 5% of the total US $650 billion allocation, totaling US $33.8 billion. While the SDRs were established in 1969 after the […]

Comment on Infographic: African countries had to spend billions to manage COVID-19 in 2021 by Beyond soft loans: Why international financial reform is essential for developing countries - Emperium store

Mon, 29 May 2023 09:13:55 +0000

[…] scale required, and many have been short-term and relatively expensive. To put this into context, our calculations suggest that African governments spent around US$130 billion to respond to COVID-19 over […]

Comment on Infographic: African countries had to spend billions to manage COVID-19 in 2021 by Beyond soft loans: Why international financial reform is essential for developing countries - Ventures Africa

Mon, 29 May 2023 08:43:16 +0000

Comment on Better Late Than Never: Can China Help Kenya Break The 2% Vaccine Wall? by Patrick Wachira

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Comment on Traditional Chinese Medicine is Gaining Traction in Africa. Can it Also Help in the Fight Against COVID-19? by Kien Choong

Kien Choong — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 00:46:02 +0000

In reply to Anthony Rees. Arguably, African Traditional Medicine and Chinese Traditional Medicine are going through a process of standardisation and objective scrutiny that "Western Traditional Medicine" (aka "Western Medicine") has gone through. The standardisation process and objective scrutiny will mean abandoning some traditions, while building on other traditions.

Comment on Why have African countries administered only 1.5% of the world’s vaccines? by Mark Bender

Mark Bender — Fri, 28 May 2021 18:08:12 +0000

I found your report captivating, if sad. This requires a global “holistic” response, as follows:

May 14 (EIRNS)–The following statement was released today by the Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites, for the Global Health Summit in Rome, May 21, 2021, and for general circulation.

“The only way that the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic can be stopped, is by re-thinking the solution. We must have modern health care systems in every country. This means infrastructure for public health, and for medical care delivery at modern standards, to all populations. One model for this is the U.S. Hill-Burton Act (“Hospital Survey and Construction Act of 1946,”) whose principle was to state how many hospital beds per 1,000 residents must be in each locality (at that time, 4.5), and deploy accordingly to build them, including modern equipment and staff…”
(more at}: https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2021/05/15/global-health-security-requires-medical-infrastructure-in-every-country-major-industrial-nations-must-collaborate-now/

Comment on Which African countries will get COVID19 vaccines in 2021, and from where? by Walter

Walter — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 08:19:42 +0000

Which African countries ordered the vaccine from COVAX?

Comment on Which African countries will get COVID19 vaccines in 2021, and from where? by Mzi Nduna

Mzi Nduna — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 06:34:28 +0000

Thank you for this informative summary.
What does 178% mean?