Abstract
Pastoralists and trans-boundary populations are under the grip of an unprecedented crisis, heightened by the inability of states to engage readily in the search for answers to the continent’s human insecurity challenges. Across the continent, these populations live in nations that remain in the throes of famine, poverty & violence and continue to suffer the devastating impact of AIDS and STIs and now Ebola. On a positive note, there is a remarkable success in rolling back HIV/AIDS, since the 2001 Abuja Declaration on HIV/AIDS and ORID. Africa is also at the forefront of the global development agenda today but the challenges for mobile populace remains daunting. Using qualitative data collected from primary and secondary sources, the research has unveiled existing and emerging health challenges that emanate from state fragility, the crises of managing health care and the crises of civic and political leadership in Africa. A state is fragile when the basic functions of the State are no longer performed, they breed widespread internal conflict, revolutionary and ethnic wars, adverse regime change, genocide, politicides, and de facto or de jure loss of state legitimacy. The finding point to the criminal negligence of health care systems in trans-boundary human movements in Africa while simultaneously addressing the need for clear trajectories with strategic entry points to address capacity development needs to stem the tide of pandemics.
Key words: diseases of poverty, human mobility, health systems, state fragility & capacity,
See more here or https://www.academia.edu/9685233/Access_to_Health_Wellness_-_Implementation_of_the_Abuja_Commitment_in_Africa_and_IGAD_countries_Lessons_learned
Pastoralists and trans-boundary populations are under the grip of an unprecedented crisis, heightened by the inability of states to engage readily in the search for answers to the continent’s human insecurity challenges. Across the continent, these populations live in nations that remain in the throes of famine, poverty & violence and continue to suffer the devastating impact of AIDS and STIs and now Ebola. On a positive note, there is a remarkable success in rolling back HIV/AIDS, since the 2001 Abuja Declaration on HIV/AIDS and ORID. Africa is also at the forefront of the global development agenda today but the challenges for mobile populace remains daunting. Using qualitative data collected from primary and secondary sources, the research has unveiled existing and emerging health challenges that emanate from state fragility, the crises of managing health care and the crises of civic and political leadership in Africa. A state is fragile when the basic functions of the State are no longer performed, they breed widespread internal conflict, revolutionary and ethnic wars, adverse regime change, genocide, politicides, and de facto or de jure loss of state legitimacy. The finding point to the criminal negligence of health care systems in trans-boundary human movements in Africa while simultaneously addressing the need for clear trajectories with strategic entry points to address capacity development needs to stem the tide of pandemics.
Key words: diseases of poverty, human mobility, health systems, state fragility & capacity,
See more here or https://www.academia.edu/9685233/Access_to_Health_Wellness_-_Implementation_of_the_Abuja_Commitment_in_Africa_and_IGAD_countries_Lessons_learned
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