TAP Magazine Issue 15

Did you know that Africa only has 198 researchers per million people. This is in comparison to 4,500 per million in the UK and the US and the global average of 1,150. African scientists have been a rarity, however, the numbers have been slowly rising as we begin to realize the urgency of generating scientific knowledge on the continent. \n\nNever has science been more important than now. When we welcomed 2020, no one thought a pandemic was on the horizon. No one thought the world would be looking at more than 220 million cases of COVID-19 and over 4.5 million deaths as a result of the virus.