Original version

BBC World Service Online

Migrated podcast image for: Africa Debate

BBC Africa Debate

Performances & Events

Factual

Hand in the air

BBC World Service for Africa

If it matters to Africa, we shall debate it in Africa

Current issues that matter to Africa go under discussion and are brought to the attention of a global audience.

Current issues that matter to Africa go under discussion and are brought to the attention of a global audience.

Each month an invited audience engages robustly with a distinguished international panel to help inform global perceptions of the continent.  

If it matters to Africa, we shall debate it in Africa.

BBC Africa Debate: Africa's Fragile Health Systems and Global Epidemics

News

A malaria-infected baby lays in a bed in South Sudan

26/09/2014

Africa's Fragile Health Systems and Global Epidemics

BBC World Service for Africa - BBC Africa Debate, Africa's Fragile Health Systems and Global Epidemics

Do failed health systems in Africa make epidemics inevitable?

Ebola has so far killed over 2,800 people in parts of west Africa – that is more than all previous Ebola epidemics combined. So what has made this epidemic so severe? Do failed health systems in Africa make epidemics inevitable? 

This edition of the Africa Debate is presented by Akwasi Sarpong and Graham Easton from Accra, Ghana. There are no confirmed Ebola cases in Ghana to date, but it is preparing for the worst.

(Photo: A baby at a hospital in Juba, South Sudan, AFP)

Accessibility links

Programme Index

BBC Africa Debate

Africa's Fragile Health Systems and Global Epidemics

Genres

Brand

BBC World Service Online

About BBC World Service