01440nas a2200181   4500000000100000008004100001653002500042653001500067653002000082653003900102653001300141653001000154653001800164100001100182245008300193520096800276022001401244       2017                            d10aSub-Saharan morality10asolidarity10aPositive duties10aNeglected tropical diseases (NTDs)10aIdentity10aEbola10aAfrican ethic1 aMetz T00aHow to deal with neglected tropical diseases in the light of an African ethic.3 a<p>Many countries in Africa, and more generally those in the Global South with tropical areas, are plagued by illnesses that the wealthier parts of the world (mainly 'the West') neither suffer from nor put systematic effort into preventing, treating or curing. What does an ethic with a recognizably African pedigree entail for the ways various agents ought to respond to such neglected diseases? As many readers will know, a characteristically African ethic prescribes weighty duties to aid on the part of those in a position to do so, and it therefore entails that there should have been much more contribution from the Western, 'developed' world. However, what else does it prescribe, say, on the part of sub-Saharan governments and the African Union, and are they in fact doing it? I particularly seek to answer these questions here, by using the 2013-16 Ebola crisis in West Africa to illustrate what should have happened but what by and large did not.</p>
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