Africa Needs to Prioritize one Health Approaches that Focus on the Environment, Animal Health and Human Health

Otu, AkaninyeneEfa, EmmanuelMeseko, ClementCadmus, SimeonAthingo, RaunaNamisango, EveOgoina, DimieOkonofua, FridayEbenso, Bassey2022-07-012022-07-012021Otu, A., Effa, E., Meseko, C., Cadmus, S., Ochu, C., Athingo, R., ... & Ebenso, B. (2021). Africa needs to prioritize One Health approaches that focus on the environment, animal health and human health. Nature Medicine, 27(6), 943-946.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01375-w1546-170Xhttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/4158The past two decades have witnessed a global increase in the frequency of emerging and re-emerging infectious-disease epidemics. African countries have experienced the devastating impact of successive epidemics that are projected to have caused a loss of over 227 million years of healthy life and an annual productivity loss of over US$800 billion across the continent1. Between 2016 and 2018, over 260 infectious-disease epidemics, disasters and other potential public-health emergencies were identified in Africa, with 41 (79%) of the 52 countries in the region recording at least one epidemic during that period2. The five top causes of disease epidemics were cholera, measles, viral hemorrhagic diseases, malaria and meningitis.enAfrica Needs to Prioritize one Health Approaches that Focus on the Environment, Animal Health and Human HealthArticle