01144nas a2200133   4500000000100000008004100001653003900042653001100081653001100092100001100103245007900114490000700193520081000200       2016                            d10aNeglected tropical diseases (NTDs)10aEthics10aAfrica1 aMetz T00aHow to deal with neglected tropical diseases in light of an African ethic.0 v123 a<p>Many countries in Africa, and more generally those in the Global South with tropical areas, are plagued by illnesses that the wealthier parts of the world (mainly ‘the West’) neither suffer from nor put systematic effort into preventing, treating or curing. What does an ethic with a recognizably African pedigree entail for the ways various agents ought to respond to such diseases? Of course, an African ethic requires much more contribution from the Western, ‘developed’ world. However, what else does it prescribe, say, on the part of sub-Saharan governments and the African Union, and are they in fact doing it? I particularly seek to answer these questions here, by using the 2014-15 Ebola crisis in West Africa to illustrate what should have happened but what by and large did not.</p>