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Conceptualising COVID-19’s impacts on household food security
(Springer, 2020)
COVID-19 undermines food security both directly, by disrupting food systems, and indirectly, through the impacts of lockdowns
on household incomes and physical access to food. COVID-19 and responses to the pandemic could ...
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 ...
South Africa and the COVID-19 vaccine
(José Frantz, 2021)
Scientists, public health experts and politicians have been telling
us that, to stop Covid-19, we need to embark on a massive vaccine
rollout. But do we really need to vaccinate more than 70% of our
population to stop ...
HIV and human Coronavirus coinfections: A historical perspective
(MPDI, 2020)
Seven human coronaviruses (hCoVs) are known to infect humans. The most recent one,
SARS-CoV-2, was isolated and identified in January 2020 from a patient presenting with severe
respiratory illness inWuhan, China. Even ...
The Impact of import on inflation in Namibia
(ID publications, 2017-01)
This study examined the impact of imports on inflation in Namibia using quarterly data from
the period 1991Q1 to 2013Q4. The model estimated used imports as a dependent variable,
while gross domestic product, money supply ...
Clinical observation and management of COVID-19 patients
(Taylor and Francis, 2020)
Three leading infectious disease experts in China were invited to share their bedside observations in the management of
COVID-19 patients. Professor Taisheng Li was sent to Wuhan to provide frontline medical care. He ...
The perfect storm: Disruptions to institutional delivery care arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal
(Researchgate, 2021)
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has led to system-wide disruption of health services globally. We assessed
the effect of the pandemic on the disruption of institutional
delivery care in Nepal.
Methods We conducted a ...
The Impact of Import on inflation in Namibia
(ID Publications, 2017-01)
This study examined the impact of imports on inflation in Namibia using quarterly data from
the period 1991Q1 to 2013Q4. The model estimated used imports as a dependent variable,
while gross domestic product, money supply ...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) response in Zimbabwe: A call for urgent scale-up of testing to meet national capacity
(Oxford University Press, 2021)
Control of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) heavily relies on universal access to testing in order to identify who is infected; track
them to make sure they do not spread the disease further; and trace those with whom ...
COVID-19: Focus on masks and respirators – Implications for oral health-care workers
(2020)
The emergence of the novel human coronavirus (Severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; abbreviated as:
SARS-CoV-2) generally known as COVID-19 is a global
health concern.1
On 11 February 2020, the World ...