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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 ...
Facing your fear of Covid-19: Resilience as a protective factor against burnout in South African teachers
(Elsevier, 2022)
Frontline workers have been distinctively impacted by the rapid spread of the COVID-19
pandemic. Teachers, as frontline employees in the educational system, had to contend with
unprecedented changes to their work role, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Towards a framework for interdisciplinary collaborative online learning spaces
(Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, 2022)
This paper presents the findings from a longitudinal, inter-institutional
Design-Based Research (DBR) study that commenced in 2020 with a focus on
developing design principles for interdisciplinary collaborative ...
Resilience and sustainability of the water sector during the Covid-19 pandemic
(MDPI, 2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented socio-economic changes, ushering in a
“new (ab)normal” way of living and human interaction. The water sector was not spared from the
effects of the pandemic, a period in which ...
Identity matters: Validation of the professional identifcation scale in a sample of teachers in South Africa during the Covid 19 pandemic
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022)
Professional identity has been linked to organizational outcomes such as job performance and commitment, as well as health and well-being indices such as burnout
and depression. Professional identity is a powerful mechanism ...
Module evaluation for emergency remote teaching: An oral hygiene case study during the Covid-19 pandemic
(South African Medical Association, 2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the disruption of academic programmes
globally, thereby compelling contact universities to adopt a reactionary mode
of programme delivery.[1,2] South African (SA) universities were ...
The beneficial effects of professional identity: The mediating role of teaching identification in the relationship between role stress and psychological distress during the Covid-19 pandemic
(MDPI, 2022)
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers and students rapidly transitioned to
remote teaching and learning. In South Africa, this initial transition was followed by periods of
reopening and closing of schools ...