Social media and trust in strangers have grown Uganda’s market for COVID-19 treatments
Storer, L. & Anguyo, I.
(22 February 2022)
Social media and trust in strangers have grown Uganda’s market for COVID-19 treatments.
Africa at LSE.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda has coincided with an ‘epidemic’ of misinformation, spread in part through social media platforms such as WhatsApp. Against a backdrop of unaffordable formal healthcare, this has grown the market for herbal and traditional treatments, with effects on Ugandans’ everyday expenditure.
| Item Type | Blog post |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2022 The Authors |
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 10 May 2022 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/113934 |