@article{30756,
  keywords = {Sub-Saharan morality, solidarity, Positive duties, Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), Identity, Ebola, African ethic},
  author = {Metz T},
  title = {How to deal with neglected tropical diseases in the light of an African ethic.},
  abstract = {<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 {\textquoteright}the West{\textquoteright}) 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, {\textquoteright}developed{\textquoteright} 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>
},
  year = {2017},
  journal = {Developing world bioethics},
  issn = {1471-8847},
  doi = {10.1111/dewb.12179},
  language = {eng},
}