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For this episode, we are asking why half the world’s population is being affected disproportionately by a crisis that we are all facing. We talk to Ngina Judy, a Child Protection Officer at Dadaab Refugee Camp and Josephine Mwatibo, a Gender and Human Rights Expert about the impact of the pandemic on girls and women who are doubly marginalised; living as refugees and individuals with disabilities.

We’re taking a personal look at what it means to live through the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring stories from four scientists living in Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe whose work is at the frontlines of Africa’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we hear first hand, about their experiences, not just as researchers or scientists.

Across Africa, the pandemic has exposed fragile political freedoms and socio-economic rights and resulted in increased rates of violence by state and non-state actors, with a disproportionate impact on girls and women. To explore the impact of COVID-19 on human rights in Africa, we are joined by researchers from Kenya and Nigeria to discuss the state of human rights.

Early in the pandemic, the data community in Kenya had one question, “What is the data telling us?” We are joined by Yariwo Kitiyo, a geospatial consultant whose organization, Women in GIS, Kenya, was one of the partners working with Kenya’s Ministry of Health to answer this question.

The role of mass media in communicating the science of COVID-19, and in helping many of us understand our new reality cannot be underestimated. In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Mercy Korir, a medical doctor and journalist at the Standard Media Group (Kenya).

Africa is carrying out its largest immunization campaign ever. Across the continent, governments are scrambling to find the COVID-19 vaccines they need to save vulnerable lives, achieve population health and re-open socio-economic activities, but they are facing…

In this season, we are talking to medical doctors, researchers, policy makers, journalists, thinkers, and other experts about how African countries are responding to the pandemic. Where are they finding hope? What are the challenges? What are their Big Ideas for getting us to the other side of this crisis? The season premieres on Thursday, September 30th.