title: On the socio-economic impact of pandemics in Africa - Lessons learned from COVID-19, Trypanosomiasis, HIV, Yellow Fever and Cholera
abstract: ABSTRACT &amp;amp; RÉSUMÉ : Throughout history, nothing has killed more human beings than infectious diseases. Although, death rates from pandemics dropped globally by about 0.8 % per year, all the way through the 20th century, the number of new infectious diseases like Sars, HIV and Covid-19 increased by nearly fourfold over the past century. In Africa, there were reported a total of 4,522,489 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 119,816 death, as of 23 April 2021. The pandemic impacted seriously on th