Jakaya Kikwete

Jakaya Kikwete

Jakaya Kikwete was president of Tanzania from 2005 to 2015 and chaired the United Nations High-Level Panel on the Global Response to Health Crises.

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Opinion: What COVID-19 tells us about battling malaria, other infectious diseases in Africa

Opinion: What COVID-19 tells us about battling malaria, other infectious diseases in Africa

almost 5 years ago // Global health

One year after the emergence of COVID-19, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former president of Liberia, and Jakaya Kikwete, former president of Tanzania, discuss lessons from the pandemic on how African countries should respond to the ongoing threat of malaria.