Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Kenneth Okpomo

  • Making history by eradicating Ebola

    Kenneth Okpomo “Funerals have become one of the most common social events in Africa in the late 1990s. Elderly parents are burying their sons and daughters…Workers are burying their bosses or their colleagues…” noted Elizabeth Pisani, an HIV and AIDs consultant, nearly fifteen years ago.1 But with the new highly contagious virulent Ebola virus ravaging…