The Womb as Target: Linking Procreative Sex with Premature Death and Epidemics in Modern Day Ghana

Abstract

This essay will reveal that the source of public health policy over the last two decades in Ghana and South Africa—widely divergent cultures and political economies in other respects—has been shaped by political history and current global economic forces. The dualistic juxtaposition of African tradition with Western modernity functions nowadays in the international domain to build a dual impression of the need for foreign direction and expertise in the building of health care delivery, and yields a perpetuation of Victorian racist stereotyping as the basis for forwarding a non-scientific agenda, and promoting the multinational pharmaceutical industry’s profits, at the expense of coherence and effectiveness in domestic health care policies of African nations, with specific focus on modern Ghana .