Author: Esther Ejiroghene Ajari
Esther Ejiroghene Ajari is the Founder and Director of The TriHealthon, a youth-led nonprofit promoting health equity in Africa through community development as well as theoretical and community-based research. She is also a global public health researcher with several published papers in reputable international peer-reviewed journals. She is also a regular peer-reviewer for the European Journal of Environment and Public Health.
Furthermore, she is a Medicine and Surgery student at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. At this institution, she works as the Administrator of the Young Researchers Club. In her spare time, she loves advocating for health development and gender equality through creative pieces. To learn more about her, kindly visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/esther-ajari/
Traditional Chinese Medicine Training in Mali: “A Revolution of Sorts” but Skepticism Remains
In December 2019, when the Tianjin government launched its Luban Workshop in Mali, it stood out from the Luban Workshops (named after Lu Ban, the father of Chinese architecture) in other African countries which offer courses on ultra-modern device manufacturing, high-speed rail technologies and Chinese cuisine ...
China’s Input Ensured the Elimination of Schistosomiasis from Zanzibar’s Pemba Island
The WHO and the Tanzanian government have heralded a Chinese project to combat schistosomiasis in Pemba island, Zanzibar, which ran from 2016 until this year. Its successful implementation of good practices like broad-based cooperation and its flexible project design to accommodate local specificities might have received more ...
Combatting Malaria in the Comoros Islands: How China Almost Got it Right
China’s ground-breaking anti-malarial intervention in the Comoros, where malaria is the number one cause of death across all populations, has resulted in the East African island nation being named by the World Health Organisation as “one of six African countries on course to eliminate malaria by 2020”. ...