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COVID‑19 Lockdowns: Impact on facility‑based HIV testing and the case for the scaling up of home‑based testing services in Sub‑Saharan Africa
(Springer Nature, 2020)
In December 2019, China reported the emergence of a pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan [1]. By 7 January 2020, the etiology of the pneumonia was attributed to a virus of the coronavirus family, and later on the disease ...
Risk factors for COVID-19 among healthcare workers. A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
(Public Library of Science, 2021)
Evidence on the spectrum of risk factors for infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) among front-line healthcare workers (HCWs) has not been well-described. While several studies evaluating ...
Covid-19 prevalence among healthcare workers. A systematic review and meta-analysis
(MPDI, 2022)
Understanding the burden of SARS-CoV-2 infections among healthcare workers is a critical
component to inform occupational health policy and strategy. We conducted a systematic review and
meta-analysis to map and analayse ...
Risk factors for Covid-19 infection among healthcare workers. A first report from a living systematic review and meta-analysis
(Elsevier, 2022)
Health care workers (HCWs) are more than ten times more likely to be infected with coronavirus in-
fectious disease 2019 (COVID-19) than the general population, thus demonstrating the burden of COVID-
19 among HCWs. ...
Emerging infectious disease outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa: Learning from the past and present to be better prepared for future outbreaks
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2023)
Background: Over the past two decades, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has faced multiple public health emergencies (1). A public health emergency (PHE) is a situation with health consequences too severe for conventional community ...