Social media and trust in strangers have grown Uganda’s market for COVID-19 treatments
Storer, Liz; and Anguyo, Innocent
(2022)
Social media and trust in strangers have grown Uganda’s market for COVID-19 treatments
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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 | ['eprint_typename_blog_post' not defined] |
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| Keywords | coronavirus,Covid-19 |
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 10 May 2022 13:09 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/113934 |
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