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Re-imagining resilient food systems in the post-Covid-19 era in Africa
(MPDI, 2021)
The COVID-19 pandemic heightened awareness that serious illness and injury are common
and important shocks that result in food insecurity, the loss of livelihoods, and unsustainable coping
strategies. These have significant ...
Social protection responses to COVID-19 in Africa
(SAGE Publications, 2021)
Most African countries implemented measures to contain the spread of COVID-19
during 2020, such as restrictions on business activity and travel, school closures and
stay-at-home lockdowns for several months. These ...
Monkeypox during Covid-19 era in Africa: Current challenges and recommendations
(Elsevier, 2022)
In May 2022, monkeypox virus (MPXV) outbreak was confirmed amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic in many parts of the world including Africa. This is the largest outbreak since monkeypox (MPX) was
first ...
The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: Insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2022)
Investment in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) sequencing in Africa over the past year has led to a major increase in the number of sequences that have been generated and used to track the ...
Strategies for malaria vaccination during the Covid-19 pandemic in African countries
(World Health Organization, 2022)
Since October 2021, the World Health
Organization (WHO) recommends the
use of RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine for children in areas of moderate
to high transmission of Plasmodium
falciparum in Africa.1
The vaccine ...
Challenges faced by African healthcare workers during the third wave of the pandemic
(Wiley, 2022)
Africa experienced the third wave of the coronavirus disease in 2019, which caused
an 18% rise in cases in most parts of the continent. As of January 2022, the region
had an estimated 10.4 million cumulative cases and ...
Marburg virus disease amid Covid-19 in West Africa: An emerging and re-emerging zoonotic epidemic threat, future implications and way forward
(2023)
Amid the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic,
several African countries including Ghana
and Equatorial Guinea have reported several
zoonotic outbreaks. The COVID-19 pandemic
has added more strain on the already ...
African governments must build on Covid-19 responses to advance gender equality
(NLM (Medline), 2023)
Gender inequality remains a
major threat to development
in Africa, with millions of
women in the continent not
reaching their full potential.1
The covid-19 pandemic and related quarantine and lockdown measures exacerbated ...
No pandemic preparedness and research without gender equality
(NLM (Medline), 2023)
The covid-19 emergency may have been declared
over, but its effects are not. Pre-existing inequities
worsened during the pandemic, and the crisis has
hardened societal fault lines. Sex and gender mark
many of these. ...