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- 11 January 2024
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Broken supply chains and local manufacturing innovation: Responses to Covid-19 and their implications for policy
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- Cancer Care in Pandemic Times: Building Inclusive Local Health Security in Africa and India
Abstract
The immense scale of the pandemic healthcare supply crisis across Sub-Saharan Africa showed that a stronger industrial base allowed India, and some African countries, to better tackle crucial supply gaps. Governments have been forced by Covid-19 into developing new “socio-technical imaginaries”: shared visions of what is possible and important for local health security. The pandemic confirmed widespread pre-pandemic African predictions that in a major crisis, African countries would find themselves at the back of the queue; that truth is driving a new recognition of industrialisation’s role in building local health security, including the huge challenge of cancer care in Africa.
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Cite as
Banda, G., Wanjala, C., Manduku, V., Mugwagwa, J. & Kale, D. 2024, 'Broken supply chains and local manufacturing innovation: Responses to Covid-19 and their implications for policy', Cancer Care in Pandemic Times: Building Inclusive Local Health Security in Africa and India, pp. 25-46. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44123-3_2