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What is Covid-19 teaching us about community health systems? A reflection from a rapid community-led mutual aid response in cape town, South Africa
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2020)
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed the wide gaps in South Africa’s formal social safety
net, with the country’s high levels of inequality, unemployment and poor public infrastructure combining ...
Lockdown-associated hunger may be affecting breastfeeding: Findings from a large sms survey in South Africa
(MDPI, 2022)
The impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had, and will continue to have, on food
security and child health is especially concerning. A rapid, Short Message Service (SMS) Maternal
and Child Health survey was conducted ...
The landscape of Covid-19 vaccination in Zimbabwe: A narrative review and analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the programme
(MDPI, 2022)
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges for the population.
The advent of national COVID-19 vaccination programmes was therefore welcome as a key control
strategy for the COVID-19 pandemic, as ...
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. ...
Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness studies in Nigeria: Quo vadis?
(International Society of Global Health, 2022)
The “lickety-split” development of COVID-19 vaccines 326 days from when the SARS-COV-2 virus was
first sequenced is indeed one of the public health successes of the 21st century. Particularly because an
18-month target ...
Text, voice-notes, and Emojis: Exploring the use of WhatsApp as a responsive research method for qualitative studies
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Unprecedented times are upon us and the need for ethically responsive online research methods is increasing exponentially. Currently, literature is showing that previously frowned upon methods such as ...
What is Covid-19 teaching us about community health systems? A reflection from a rapid community-led mutual aid response in Cape Town, South Africa
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2022)
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed the wide gaps in South Africa’s formal social safety
net, with the country’s high levels of inequality, unemployment and poor public infrastructure combining ...
Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy among Nigerians living with noncommunicable diseases: A qualitative study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2023)
The discovery and subsequent manufacture
of various types of COVID-19 vaccines were considered a
breakthrough in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Initially, limited supplies of COVID-19 vaccines warranted
vulnerable ...
Multilevel governance and control of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Learning from the four first waves
(MDPI, 2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impose a heavy burden on people around the
world. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has also been affected. The objective of this
study was to explore national policy responses ...
Contextual factors associated with contraceptive utilization and unmet need among sexually active unmarried women in Kenya: A multilevel regression analysis
(Public Library of Science, 2022)
Unmarried women who report less recent sexual intercourse (>30 days from survey enumeration)
are largely excluded from global health monitoring and evaluation efforts. This
study investigated level and contextual factors ...