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Canadian poll | DRC's health system

Posted by: The Conversation Global

Date: Tuesday, 22 October 2019

 

Editor's note

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has squeaked through to win a minority government. As Jeremy Wildeman explains, Trudeau was on the ropes throughout the campaign, just four years after his meteoric rise to power and global fandom. Though the world might have been surprised at his struggles, that wasn’t the case for Canadian progressives who first helped propel him to those heights four years ago.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo remains a global health emergency. Emma Glennon and Freya Jephcott set out how the country’s seriously weak health system has stymied efforts to bring the outbreak to an end.

Scott White

CEO | Editor-in-Chief

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reaches out to supporters at a rally in Vancouver on the eve of the country’s election. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Justin Trudeau’s political setback: A surprise to the world, but not to Canada

Jeremy Wildeman, University of Bath

For international observers, it may be stunning to see Justin Trudeau's government reduced to a minority after his meteoric rise to power in 2015. It happened because he disappointed his progressive base.

UNICEF carers at a creche for children whose parents are being treated for Ebola. Building health infrastructure is crucial to stopping the next outbreak. Epa/ Hugh Kinsella Cunningham

Investing in health systems is the only way to stop the next Ebola outbreak

Emma Glennon, University of Cambridge; Freya Jephcott, University of Cambridge

The emergency in the DRC shows that despite all these positive changes, the global response to containing Ebola outbreaks is undermined by the lack of health care and public health infrastructure.

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Gerard de Kamper, University of Pretoria

Fake copies of works by legendary black South African modernist artists are flooding the market - and one university is deploying a range of scientific tests to expose them.

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Jihane Sfeir, Université Libre de Bruxelles

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