Slide Presentation

Two members of our team, Dr. Samuel Asiedu (Research Coordinator) and Prof. Elysee Nouvet (Co-investigator) represented the Moving Beyond Solidarity Rhetoric in Global Health research team at the 17th World Congress of Bioethics in Doha, Qatar.  

As part of their presentation, they highlighted key findings from two regional workshops in Ghana (Anglophone) and Guinea (Francophone) held in November 2023 and March 2024, respectively, on 'desilencing African conceptualizations and the praxis of solidarity in global health. Some of the key findings on solidarity in the African context included:  

  • Support within communities in times of need and as a way of life 
  • Thinking in terms of relationships rather than rights   
  • Relationality that encompasses both human (ancestral and current) and non-human entities  
  • Flourishing, thriving, faring well together, survival, emancipation/freedom as some of the goals of solidarity 
  • It is not solidarity if those with more resources set priorities and methods  
  • Concern with lack of sincerity and reproduction of inequities demonstrates “solidarity.” 
  • Solidarity and trust are intricately connected. 

The Global Solidarity project aims to enrich understandings and practices of solidarity in global health so that solidarity can play an even more active role in increasing equity and justice, de-silence diverse and lesser-heard experiences and conceptions from non-Western traditions, historically marginalized groups, or lesser-heard but deeply impacted stakeholders in tackling global health challenges, and offer actionable metrics for the practice of solidarity.