Comments on: Bamako ‘Call to Action’ unites 69 countries on health research http://scidevnet.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/bamako-call-to-action-unites-69-countries-on-health-research/ The official blog of SciDev.Net, the Science and Development Network Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:11:00 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Lopson Balopi Kebapetswe http://scidevnet.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/bamako-call-to-action-unites-69-countries-on-health-research/#comment-134 Lopson Balopi Kebapetswe Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:56:55 +0000 http://scidevnet.wordpress.com/?p=395#comment-134 Just want to know which 69 countries are those? Was Botswana represented? Or any other Sub saharan country? I guess it is now time we initiate our own research on diseases affecting our continent. Therefore,each region should be represented, and we can pool together our institutions and resources to combat diseases. Sub Saharan Africa should focus on HIV and TB, the most killer diseases in the region. How long is it going to take us to have visiting scientists across the region? Visiting scholars across the region? This might help in solving our problems. The 2% of national health budgets going to research is a good idea, states should start awarding leading scientists with grants to carry on their research. Perhaps this might help to avoid "brain drainage" from Africa to overseas countries. Or even more, African scientists doing cutting-edge science elsewhere might be attracted by those grants and interest of their governments in their work. We going somewhere. Just want to know which 69 countries are those? Was Botswana represented? Or any other Sub saharan country? I guess it is now time we initiate our own research on diseases affecting our continent. Therefore,each region should be represented, and we can pool together our institutions and resources to combat diseases. Sub Saharan Africa should focus on HIV and TB, the most killer diseases in the region.

How long is it going to take us to have visiting scientists across the region? Visiting scholars across the region? This might help in solving our problems. The 2% of national health budgets going to research is a good idea, states should start awarding leading scientists with grants to carry on their research. Perhaps this might help to avoid “brain drainage” from Africa to overseas countries. Or even more, African scientists doing cutting-edge science elsewhere might be attracted by those grants and interest of their governments in their work.

We going somewhere.

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