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Jennifer Derr

Jennifer L. Derr is an associate professor of history and the founding director of the Center for the Middle East and North Africa at UC Santa Cruz.

Hepatitis C, COVID-19 and the Egyptian Regime’s Approach to Health Care
Doctors conduct a test in the government’s campaign to detect and treat hepatitis C, in Cairo, Egypt. November 2018. Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters
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Hepatitis C, COVID-19 and the Egyptian Regime’s Approach to Health Care

As social phenomena, epidemics and the responses they generate reveal much about a country’s political economy and a state’s relationship with its citizens. In Egypt, the manner in which President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi’s regime has approached an epidemic of hepatitis C on the one hand and the arriva
Jennifer Derr • 12 min read