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COVID-19 and informal settlements: An urgent call to rethink urban governance
(Springer Nature, 2020)
While some countries are nearing or reaching their peak of coronavirus infections, others are only at what seems to be the early stages of the infection curve. Some of these countries, particularly in the Global South, ...
COVID-19 risk factors among health workers: A rapid review
(Elsevier, 2020)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) poses an important occupational health risk to health workers (HWs) that has attracted global scrutiny. To date, several thousand HWs globally have been reported as infected with the ...
COVID-19 rapid response in a limited resource setting (notes from the field): Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital, Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe
(Haraka Publishing, 2021)
COVID-19 has impacted health systems globally with varying impacts across regions. In Zimbabwe, a country with perennial problems of shortage of healthcare workers and resources, the pandemic has caused substantial strain ...
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic response on intrapartum care, stillbirth, and neonatal mortality outcomes in Nepal: a prospective observational study
(Elsevier, 2020)
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic response is affecting maternal and neonatal health services all over the world. We aimed to assess the number of institutional births, their outcomes (institutional stillbirth and neonatal ...
Commentary: Lessons from the COVID-19 global health response to inform TB case finding
(Elsevier, 2021)
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has emerged as a serious threat to global public health, demanding
urgent action and causing unprecedented worldwide change in a short space of time. This disease has devastated
economies, ...
Nigeria's public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic: January to May 2020
(Edinburgh University Global Health Society, 2020)
The novel coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19, which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) [1] was first reported in December 2019 by Chinese Health Authorities following an outbreak of pneumonia ...
Knowledge, attitude, and practice towards Covid-19 among people living with HIV/AIDS in Kigali, Rwanda
(Springer Nature, 2020)
As with other countries globally, Rwanda has faced a recent outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) against a backdrop of an HIV epidemic. At present, there is no successful cure or vaccine for both COVID-19 ...
The pandemic of online research in times of COVID-19
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an explosion of online research using rating scales. While this approach can be useful, two of the major challenges affecting the quality of this type of research include selection bias and ...
Accountability for SRHR in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
Governments and international organisations are focused on COVID-19 crisis decision-making. As a result, global and national health governance contexts are changing dramatically, as are the social and political determinants ...
Descriptive epidemiology of coronavirus disease 2019 in Nigeria, 27 February-6 June, 2020
(Cambridge University Press, 2020)
The objective of this study was to describe the epidemiology of COVID-19 in Nigeria with a view of generating evidence to enhance planning and response strategies. A national surveillance dataset between 27 February and 6 ...