So you mean to tell me a Naija nurse did a better job than an American nurse????!!!!!!!!!
Why Africa Can’t Handle Ebola: the Destruction of the 3rd World
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So you mean to tell me a Naija nurse did a better job than an American nurse????!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, that’s a provocative headline. No, we’re not talking about some movie thriller like Constant Gardner, in which an evil drug company does some deadly experimentation on hapless Africans.
We’re talking about reality with a medical anthropologist, James Pfeiffer, about one of the root causes of the massive outbreak of Ebola now ravaging West Africa. It is the aid and development community – the same folks now responding to the rescue.
As the cartoon character Pogo put it: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
According to Pfeiffer, who is a professor of global health and anthropology at the University of Washington, the popular narrative of the Ebola outbreak often points to weak governance, poverty and poor health systems as one of the primary reasons why this infectious disease has exploded in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. That’s absolutely true, he says.
But what is usually not mentioned in the narrative, Pfeiffer adds, is how Western agencies devoted to reducing global poverty like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank imposed policies on these countries (sometimes referred to as structural adjustment) that for decades has discouraged many African nations from investing in public infrastructure – such as basic health care systems.
What is also neglected is that the Western humanitarian community, the NGOs (non-governmental organizations), that are now trying to help – in many cases, courageously – fight this devastation also helped contribute to the weakening of in-country health care services. How? You’ll need to give a listen to Pfeiffer to find out.
And as usual for our weekly podcast, Tom Paulson and I talk about some of the news highlights this week, including the Obama Administration’s massive and very welcome quasi-military response to the Ebola outbreak, the broader Humanospheric implications of independence movements in places like Scotland, in the U.S. (including here, as theCascadia movement) and how these movements may help empower people in poor countries.
We also talk about Tom Murphy’s report on why buying TOMS shoes may hurt the poor and a new study by Seattle scientists who say the world population is not stabilizing and may reach 11 billion by the end of the millennium.
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http://www.humanosphere.org/podcast...industry-helped-cause-africas-ebola-outbreak/
we dont know if that story is true, what we know is that the so called protective gear isnt working
You sure? I thought the Spanish nurse touched her face and the American ones all didn't follow protocol?
it seems like these people are getting infected during the process of removing the gear
thats what they think
so like in the other thread, if the rethugs don't want to send the cash it's ok. cause once the money comes it'll come with strings attached and only result in african ppl losing their land and resources.
the russians and cubans will hold it down. communism is better than capitalism
african people shouldn't give up their resources for paper money that is worthless. white supremacy, colonizaion and imperialism is alive and well hiding behind these humanitarian organizations and the african folks must fight against them.
in the past you have said you were ok with the us military creating facilities/fema camps over there. but i disagree and have been totally against it from the jump. my tin foil theories came to life with that link
. i was listening to it with the woman and she started crying...and they are represented well hiding in organizations like the imf and world bank. and they can temporarily hire locals to work against the interests of their own people for money..I think West Africa's biggest enemies are Britain and France