Is Africa part of the partnership

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ID3659564
AuthorsYap Boum Ii, Yap Boum (0000-0002-6823-8539, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume5
Issue2
Publication date2018-05-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedicine Anthropology Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2405-691X • E-ISSN: 2405-691X
PublisherEdinburgh University Library (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17157/mat.5.2.527
OpenAlexW2803451077
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited2

This essay presents an African perspective on medical research partnerships done in Africa. While African institutions have a long history of establishing research partnerships with Western institutions it is important to assess how they have been contributing to this relationship. After describing how partnerships are established and how they currently function for many institutions, I discuss how mutual and antagonistic interests can affect those global health relationships that finish in 'divorce'. I end with defining the place of Africa in its partnerships with Western institutions in medical research, and argue for a new mind-set that would bolster African ownership and funding of research done in Africa

Economic growth · General partnership · Medical research · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Global Health and Surgery · Health and Medical Research Impacts · Law · Medicine

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