The Cancer Care Challenge in the Light of Pandemic Experience

Mackintosh, Maureen; Banda, Geoffrey; Njeru, Mercy Karimi; Srinivas, Smita and Makene, Fortunata Sangora (2024). The Cancer Care Challenge in the Light of Pandemic Experience. In: Banda, Geoffrey; Mackintosh, Maureen; Njeru, Mercy Karimi; Srinivas, Smita and Makene, Fortunata Sangora eds. Cancer Care in Pandemic Times: Building inclusive local health security in Africa and India. International Political Economy Series. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 3–23.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44123-3_1

Abstract

This introductory chapter argues that tackling the escalating cancer crisis in Africa and India is essential for human wellbeing and inclusive health care, while having much to teach about how to build better local health security in low- and middle-income contexts. Global health security is built on the foundations of strong local health security. Local health security in turn relies on effective and innovative industrial supply chains to provide essential medicines, devices and other commodities at manageable prices, and effective industrial-health sector policy collaboration to ensure broad health benefit, lessons the pandemic has hammered home.

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