TEDWomen 2021: Africans should lead on health care solutions for Africa

Francisca Mutapi makes the case for the continent to chart out its own health care policies.

TED Fellow and global health researcher Francisca Mutapi discusses how COVID-19 responses borrowed from the West created significant obstacles for other public health programs in Africa - and makes the case for the continent to chart out its own health care policies. "The solutions to Africa's health problems must be home-grown and must be led by Africans," she says.

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