Department of History and Political Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2024;1457:323-342. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-61939-7_18.
The study highlights the crucial roles played by interest groups in shaping the definition and redefinition of policy issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. The study focused on selected countries to discuss strategies that were deployed to combat the COVID quandary. The selected countries are Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Egypt, and Tunisia. A purely qualitative research, it relied on existing literature sources to produce thematic analysis which explore the various strategies adopted by interest groups in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. The study revealed the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic to the already fragile healthcare system in Africa. Again, it revealed the innovative approaches such as herbal medicine and local production of ventilators developed by African countries to tackle COVID-19 including efforts of other interests groups like government agencies, private institutions and international organizations in the fight against COVID-19 in Africa.
该研究强调了利益集团在塑造与非洲 COVID-19 大流行相关的政策问题的定义和重新定义方面所发挥的关键作用。该研究侧重于选定的国家，以讨论为应对 COVID 困境而部署的策略。选定的国家是尼日利亚、加纳、肯尼亚、坦桑尼亚、南非、津巴布韦、埃及和突尼斯。这是一项纯粹的定性研究，它依赖于现有文献资料进行主题分析，探讨利益集团在解决非洲 COVID-19 大流行方面采用的各种策略。该研究揭示了 COVID-19 大流行对非洲本已脆弱的医疗保健系统带来的挑战。此外，它还揭示了非洲国家为应对 COVID-19 而采取的创新方法，包括草药和本地生产的呼吸机，以及政府机构、私立机构和国际组织等其他利益集团在非洲抗击 COVID-19 方面的努力。
