The global contamination risk: the battle against Ebola epidemic in Africa as a vector of international cooperation

Authors

  • Gills Vilar Lopes Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência Política, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil.
  • Fabiola Faro Eloy Dunda Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência Política, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v9i1.936

Keywords:

International cooperation, Health policy, planning and management, Contamination, Ebolavirus, Africa

Abstract

Considered the largest epidemic of Ebola since the first outbreak in 1976, West Africa has faced great challenges, especially endogenous, to contain the disease spreading. Our objective is to analyze the current epidemic of Ebola in the light of the neoliberal institutionalism and the logic of collective action, using as methodology the strategy of nested analysis. It is concluded that the risk of an Ebola pandemic has worked as an incentive for the involved actors want to cooperate. The results lead the discussion to an area little explored academically: the international medical ethics, which raises questions like: "why is not given priority to Africans in the differential treatment against Ebola?" and "what is the true role played by WHO when dealing with large epidemics?” The study breaks new ground when it deals with the logic behind the international cooperation concerning health in Africa and adds infographic maps to international politics literature.

Author Biographies

Gills Vilar Lopes, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência Política, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil.

Fabiola Faro Eloy Dunda, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência Política, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil.

No ORCID: 0000-0001-9832-3200

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Possui graduação em Medicina pela Universidade Federal da Paraíba (1994) e mestrado em Relaçoes Internacionais pela Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (2012).Atualmente é Mestre em Relações Internacionais e iniciou Doutorado em Ciência Política na Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) em 2013.

 

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Lopes, G. V., & Dunda, F. F. E. (2015). The global contamination risk: the battle against Ebola epidemic in Africa as a vector of international cooperation. Revista Eletrônica De Comunicação, Informação & Inovação Em Saúde, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v9i1.936

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2015)

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Original articles

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