Interventions

This report was written by Professor Ama de-Graft Aikins (then Dr. Ama de-Graft Aikins) for The British Academy. The report was based on a synthesis of presentations from an international conference on Africa’s Neglected Epidemic: Multidisciplinary Research, Intervention and Policy for Chronic Diseases organised by the British Academy, Royal Society and Ghana Academy of Arts

Abstract: In this paper I examine how responses to COVID-19 by Ghana’s creative arts communities shape public understanding of the pandemic. I focus on comedy, music, textile designs, and murals created between March and August 2020, through frameworks of the social psychology of everyday knowledge and arts and health. The art forms perform three functions:

The growing popularity of fried chicken and pizza in parts of Africa underscores how fast food is changing habits and expanding waistlines ACCRA, Ghana — After finishing high school a decade ago, Daniel Awaitey enrolled in computer courses, dropped out to work in a hotel, then settled into a well-paying job in the booming oil

Tim Smedley Public health efforts in Africa have focused on infectious diseases such as HIV, but chronic diseases are also big killers Women leave a McDonald’s fast food outlet in Pretoria, South Africa. Poor diet is one of the factors in the rise of non-communicable diseases across the continent. Photograph: Obed Zilwa/AP Few people know