What is it about?
This study is a review article on how health pandemics may be contained by stakeholder involvement. In the study the case of "The Global Soap Project" highlights, with hindsight, how the spread of Ebola virus across West Africa might have been contained through a focus on personal hygiene.
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Why is it important?
The study aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals, and especially those related to migrants and Diasporas and the forging of networks in order to give back to challenged communities. Researchers interested in migration studies, social entrepreneurship, and or development economics/ studies would find the article useful for replication - especially now that the Zika virus has gone beyond South America (notably Brazil) towards Asia (notably Singapore).
Perspectives
"The Global Soap Project" highlights, with hindsight, how the spread of Ebola virus across West Africa might have been contained through a focus on personal hygiene. It also highlights implications for policy as far as the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals at both national and regional levels, is concerned.
Professor Nnamdi O Madichie
Nnamdi Azikiwe University
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This page is a summary of: The business of saving lives in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) - a social imperative? Insights from “The Global Soap Project”, Journal of Enterprising Communities People and Places in the Global Economy, August 2016, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/jec-11-2014-0025.
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