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      How to deal with neglected tropical diseases in the light of an African ethic.

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          Many countries in Africa, and more generally those in the Global South with tropical areas, are plagued by illnesses that the wealthier parts of the world (mainly 'the West') neither suffer from nor put systematic effort into preventing, treating or curing. What does an ethic with a recognizably African pedigree entail for the ways various agents ought to respond to such neglected diseases? As many readers will know, a characteristically African ethic prescribes weighty duties to aid on the part of those in a position to do so, and it therefore entails that there should have been much more contribution from the Western, 'developed' world. However, what else does it prescribe, say, on the part of sub-Saharan governments and the African Union, and are they in fact doing it? I particularly seek to answer these questions here, by using the 2013-16 Ebola crisis in West Africa to illustrate what should have happened but what by and large did not.

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          Journal
          Dev World Bioeth
          Developing world bioethics
          Wiley
          1471-8847
          1471-8731
          September 2018
          : 18
          : 3
          Article
          10.1111/dewb.12179
          29110410
          8a1d0a8b-ff6d-4c2a-8361-dd3b944a67e5
          © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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          African ethic , Ebola , identity , neglected tropical diseases , positive duties , solidarity , sub-Saharan morality

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