Introduction: Critical perspectives on US global health partnerships in Africa and beyond

Kenworthy, Nora; Thomas, Lynn M.; Crane, Johanna

doi:10.17157/mat.5.2.613

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“…Frustratingly and tragically, this complexity suggests that the ultimate solution to eradicate stigma requires the removal of its historical and intersectional layers; it requires utopian and unrealistic forms of control over the socially-embedded knowledge and feelings of peoplecontrol that cannot be achieved by ambitious attempts to design 'proper' subjectivities via social and epistemological structures within global health. Presented stories thus empirically contribute to a recent, somewhat alarming academic call to reconsider community-oriented health interventions beyond standard emancipatory, romantic and empowering connotations (Kenworthy et al, 2018;Lavery, 2018;Reynolds & Sariola, 2018;Wilkinson et al, 2017).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 92%

‘We will soon be dead’: stigma and cascades of looping effects in a collaborative Ebola vaccine trial

Alenichev

2019

Critical Public Health

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Can the careful implementation of global health research reduce the stigmatization of involved human subjects? This study analyses stigma in an Ebola vaccine clinical trial in West Africa that deployed complex community engagement strategies including a sensitization component. Qualitative research found that stigma against trial subjects manifested in various forms beyond the reach of these anti-stigma interventions. Drawing on and advancing Hacking's notion of 'looping effects', this paper argues that stigma was a product of a wider socio-historical context beyond the control of community-based interventions. This case prompts global health practitioners to think through the limitations of communitybased interventions in practice. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 92%

‘We will soon be dead’: stigma and cascades of looping effects in a collaborative Ebola vaccine trial

Alenichev

2019

Critical Public Health

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“…Maintaining a historical mindset encourages practitioners of global health to more critically engage with the structures upon which this field was built. As Nora Kenworthy, Lynn Hunt, Johanna Crane, and Iruka Okeke have pointed out, the partnerships upon which global health functions are often inequitable, impermanent, and rooted in the histories of colonialism and racism (Crane 2010;Kenworthy et al 2018;Okeke 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

African Studies Keyword: Malaria

Graboyes¹,

Alidina²

2021

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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From nearly any perspective and metric, the effects of malaria on the African continent have been persistent and deep. By focusing on the malady of malaria and the last century of biomedical interventions, Graboyes and Alidina raise critical historical, ethical, and scientific questions related to truth telling, African autonomy, and the obligations of foreign researchers. They provide a condensed history of malaria activities on the continent over the past 120 years, highlighting the overall history of failures to eliminate or control the disease. A case study of the risks of rebound malaria illustrates the practical and moral problems that abound when historical knowledge is ignored. In light of current calls for renewed global eradication efforts, Graboyes and Alidina provide evidence for why historical knowledge must be better integrated into global health epistemic realms.

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“…The often resourceconstrained host institution often gets very little out of these "partnerships". 4 Herein lies an opportunity. Partnerships between HIC and LMIC academic programmes should be structured so that the LMIC institution gains substantial, long-term benefits from the collaboration.…”

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confidence: 99%