Broken Supply Chains and Local Manufacturing Innovation: Responses to Covid-19 and Their Implications for Policy

Banda, Geoffrey; Wanjala, Cecilia; Vanduku, Veronica; Mugwagwa, Julius and Kale, Dinar (2024). Broken Supply Chains and Local Manufacturing Innovation: Responses to Covid-19 and Their Implications for Policy. In: Banda, Geoffrey; Mackintosh, Maureen; Karimi Njeru, Mercy; Songora Makene, Fortunata and Srinivas, Smita eds. Cancer Care in Pandemic Times: Building Inclusive Local Health Security in Africa and India. International political economy series. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 25–46.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44123-3_2

Abstract

The immense scale of the pandemic healthcare supply crisis across Sub-Saharan Africa showed that a stronger industrial base allowed India, and some African countries, to better tackle crucial supply gaps. Governments have been forced by Covid-19 into developing new “socio-technical imaginaries”: shared visions of what is possible and important for local health security. The pandemic confirmed widespread pre-pandemic African predictions that in a major crisis, African countries would find themselves at the back of the queue; that truth is driving a new recognition of industrialisation’s role in building local health security, including the huge challenge of cancer care in Africa.

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