La République démocratique du Congo (RDC), frappée par la pandémie de la COVID-19, a mis en place un plan de riposte national au regard du premier objectif de ce plan pendant la première année de crise. Cette étude a passé en revue les différentes composantes de la surveillance et certains pilie...
Background: The global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, now in its second
year, has resulted in a large corpus of literature in a number of disciplines, particularly virology
and epidemiology. In contrast, scholarly inquiry in other areas of the health sciences,
particularly in media repr...
Background: Since the start of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, poison centres worldwide have reported an increase in exposures to chemicals used for infection prevention. Increased availability and use could lead to an increase in exposures. Potential effects on a South African Poison I...
Background: The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020, has taught us about the importance of epidemic preparedness.
Objective: We analysed the pre-COVID-19 preparedness of sub-Saharan African countries and how this may have inf...
Background: When the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic manifested in South Africa, rehabilitation services were seriously affected. The consequences of these were wide-ranging: affecting service users, their families and caregivers, rehabilitation practices and practitioners as well as the int...
Asumanu, Edward;
Servor, Raymond X;
Laryea, Clement;
McAddy, Mary;
Hobenu, Fred;
Factchu, Raymond;
Agyemang-Bediako, Kwesi;
Nyarko, Edward O;
Nyarko, Godwin K;
Moroti, Marcus K;
Edusei, Lawrence.
Background: Causes of death during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic ranhttp://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.4102/ajlm.v11i1.1766=pdf&date_stamp=2022-11-23ge from direct consequences of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection to deaths unrelated to SA...
Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has had tremendous effect on the medical and scientific
community. Measures instituted to curb the spread of the disease such as physical distancing and ban on large gatherings have significantly altered conferencing activities of medical professional associations. With n...
Objective: to analyse the pandemic after one year in terms of the evolution of morbidity and mortality and factors that may contribute to this evolution
Design: This is a secondary analysis of data gathered to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of cases, incidence rate, cumulative incidence rat...
The contents of this article are drawn from personal experiences and National response by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation during the COVID-19 pandemic in the midst of teaching in a midwifery training school. Teaching Midwifery in COVID-19 Pandemic and Post Pandemic periods impacted on the way stude...
Connolly, Emilia;
Boley, Emma J;
Fejfar, Donald Luke;
Varney, Prince F;
Aron, Moses B;
Fulcher, Isabel R;
Wesler, Lambert;
Ndayizigiye, Melino;
Law, Michael R;
Mugunga, Jean-Claude;
Hedt-Gauthier, Bethany.
Objective: To examine changes in vaccination of children younger than 1 year during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic (March 2020-August 2021) in Haiti, Lesotho, Liberia and Malawi.
Methods: We used data from health management information systems on vaccination of children aged 12 months o...
