Swiss Researching Africa Days (SRAD) 2022 Panel proposal  Convenors:

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Swiss Researching Africa Days (SRAD) 2022 Panel proposal Convenors:

29 Apr 2022

Samba Diarra, University Clinical Research Center (UCRC), Bamako, Mali Title: Multilingualism and Health Communication in sub-Saharan Africa: Transdisciplinary approaches in research and development practice Communication plays a central role in healthcare as well as in medical practice between health practitioners, patients, policy makers, and other partners involved in this process. [...] Diallo/Houssouba (2021) describe the process of inclusion and/or exclusion of sub-Saharan African languages in the Swiss medical communication media during the pandemics of AIDS and COVID-19. [...] (2019: 01) assume that “many lower- and middle-income countries (MLICs) have high levels of linguistic diversity, meaning that health information and care is not available in the languages spoken by the majority of the population.” Considering this linguistic imbalance, our panel tackles the issue of multilingual medical communication in sub-Saharan Africa and discusses some transdisciplinary pers. [...] Considering the reality of multilingualism and the imbalance between national, local and official languages such as French or English in sub-Saharan African, what languages are mainly used in medical communication? And why? 3. [...] What is the modus operandi of this communication in the health care governance? Specifically, what are the factors contributing to the success or failure of this communication? 4.

Authors

Familie Diallo

Pages
2
Published in
Côte d'Ivoire