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Akpabio Akpabio
Dr Akpabio Akpabio is a rheumatologist and internal medicine physician at the University of Uyo teaching hospital in Nigeria. He is certified by the European League Against Rheumatism and volunteers with the Global Image Foundation
The realities of politics, testing and mitigation in Africa
Covid-19 has a much different effect on the continent than it does elsewhere
Covid-19 and African children: The untold story
Children are less likely to contract the coronavirus than adults, but the way in which the pandemic affects them goes beyond ill health
The ethics of Covid-19 status disclosure: To tell or not to tell?
The trick is to find the balance between people’s right to privacy and the need for contact tracing to limit the spread of the disease
Covid-19 vaccine testing in vulnerable populations must be guided by ethics
The fallouts from unethical experiments include distrust of public health officials and poor participation in research studies by members of vulnerable populations. People…