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Utibe Effiong
Dr Utibe Effiong is an internal medicine physician with MidMichigan Health and a clinical assistant professor of medicine at Central Michigan University. He is also a senior fellow of global health and development at the Aspen Institute
Challenges and opportunities for telemedicine in Africa
Telemedicine in Africa is currently limited by the availability of basic infrastructure, but, considering the lack of doctors in rural areas, it is a vital component in…
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…