Solidarity, Afro-communitarianism, and COVID-19 vaccination [PDF]
Journal of Global Health, 2022 Caesar Alimsinya Atuire
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Bernard Matolino’s Outline of the Basis for a New Afro-Communitarian Democracy
Arụmarụka, 2022 In this paper, I engage with Bernard Matolino’s proposal for a new Afro-communitarian democracy as presented in his works “An Outline of the basis of a new Afro-communitarian political theory”, “Afro-Communitarian Democracy” and “Consensus as Democracy ...
Joyline GWARA
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Can Afro-Communitarianism Be Useful in Combating the Challenge of Human Interaction Posed by the COVID-19 Pandemic? [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 Can Afro-communitarianism serve as a viable ideology for addressing the human interaction challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic? The ongoing pandemic poses many challenges to the normal functioning of societies around the world. For example, it has caused problems ranging from social, economic, and political disruption to various forms of hardship ...
Jonathan O Chimakonam +2 more
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Rethinking benefit sharing in collaborative human genetic research from an Afrocommunitarian perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 This article draws on reflections about humanness, friendliness and partiality, in the writings of Afro-communitarians to develop principles for thinking critically about why benefit sharing, what may count as benefits within the context of human ...
Cornelius Ewuoso +2 more
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Afro-Communitarianism and the Role of Traditional African Healers in the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
Public Health Ethics, 2021 Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant challenges to healthcare systems worldwide, and in Africa, given the lack of resources, they are likely to be even more acute. The usefulness of Traditional African Healers in helping to mitigate the effects of pandemic has been neglected.
Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues +2 more
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Why ethical frameworks fail to deliver in a pandemic: Are proposed alternatives an improvement? [PDF]
Bioethics, 2023 Abstract In the past decade, numerous ethical frameworks have been developed to support public health decision‐making in challenging areas. Before the COVID‐19 pandemic began, members of the authorship team were involved in research programmes, in which the development of ethical frameworks was planned, to guide (a) the use of new technologies for ...
Degeling C +3 more
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Does the South African government have a duty to fund influenza vaccination of adults 65 years and older? [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthIn this paper, we draw on the thinking about solidarity, reciprocity and distributive justice grounded in Afro-communitarian ethics from the Global South to argue for institutions, particularly the South African (SA) government, have a prima facie duty ...
Ruach Sarangarajan, Cornelius Ewuoso
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Adults aged 65 years and older in South Africa have a responsibility to vaccinate against influenza. [PDF]
Dev World BioethAbstract In this article, we draw on the thinking about incompleteness and conviviality grounded in Afro‐communitarianism ethics from the Global South to argue that adults aged 65 years and above have a prima facie responsibility to vaccinate against influenza.
Sarangarajan R, Ewuoso C.
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Caring through the lens of African Feminisms: A systematic review
Revista Estudos Feministas, 2022 This study presents a systematic review of the research into care practices by African authors with a feminist perspective. The research question has been developed through the strategy known as PICo: participants, phenomenon of interest and context.
Cristina del Villar-Toribio +2 more
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Ubuntu Philosophy and Mandatory Measles Vaccinations for Children
Religions, 2022 This is a primarily normative paper that draws on the thinking about friendliness grounded in an Afro-communitarian (Ubuntu) philosophy to argue for measles vaccine mandates for children below 6 years old under the assumptions that measles vaccines are ...
Ruach Sarangarajan, Cornelius Ewuoso
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