Africa's innovation and creative response to COVID-19

摘要

Rather than decimation and devastation, COVID-19 appears to reveal Africa's innovation and resourcefulness in fighting disease, but this has largely escaped scholarship. Using various search engines, keywords and phrases, we conducted a scoping review of common key innovations and strategies Africa's 54 countries deployed to fight COVID-19. Our results show that African countries have used old tools and approaches in new ways, developed and adapted new technologies, and creatively used limited resources. Thus, COVID provides an opportunity for unparalleled transformation in health care and economy. We offer some policy options for scaling up and sustaining this positive transformation.