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CONFERENCE OVERVIEW:

The failure of hospital medicine to heal and care for the majority of the African

population was established as early as the late 1970s [1]. Faced with this state of affairs, the

World Health Organization (WHO) promoted the Primary Health Care (PHC) initiative.

However, most of the countries were facing economic crisis and thus were unable to implement

PHC [2]. The economic crisis was followed by structural adjustment policies by the

ACCOMMODATION:

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Scientific committee:

 Pr. Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu (IAS-UG)

Fanny Chabrol (IRD-HUMA-SA)

Fred Eboko (IRD-Ivory Coast)

Laetitia Gauvin (IRD)

Pauline Gluski (IRD-France)

Marc-Eric Gruénais (U. Bordeaux-France)

Maëlenn Guerchet (IRD-Benin), Fatoumata Ouattara (IRD-France)

Dominique Somda (HUMA-SA)

Laurent Vidal (IRD)

Organization committee:

Ellen Amster (McMaster University)

Deborah Atobrah (IAS-UG), Cati Coe (Carleton University)

Benjamin Kwansa (IAS-UG)

Ivan Marowa is a senior lecturer in the Department of History Heritage and Knowledge Systems at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a PhD in African History.