Science-engagement initiatives in Africa disseminate knowledge and bridge the gap between research and the continent’s people.
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Radio is one of the country’s most popular communication channels, but health workers hadn’t previously used it to engage with the public. Our programme aims to reach more people through FM broadcasting to ultimately improve childhood vaccination rates. Compared with other forms of media, radio is widely available in rural Ethiopia. Just over half of the country’s households have a television set, and only about 20% of the population has reliable Internet access.
In 2014, while I was studying tuberculosis as a PhD student at the University of Cape Town, I realized that I had never engaged with anyone actually affected by the disease — even though it killed 58,000 people in South Africa in 2019. I came to feel that, although my work was important, it was too slow to make an impact on society. I started looking for other avenues to share my biomedical knowledge with the public.
In many Kenyan communities, people with mental-health problems face stigma and discrimination. Some are even accused of witchcraft. This is something I encounter often in my work as a research officer at the Kenya Medical Research Institute –Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi. In October 2019, to try to combat this, my collaborators and I launched Difu Simo, a mental-health engagement project in Kilifi.
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