Background: Essential workers are imperative in the fight against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
Aim: To assess the prevalence and factors associated with anxiety and depression among essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown.
Setting: This study was set in Ekiti State, Ni...
Umubyeyi, Benoite;
Nyiringango, Gerard;
Rutayisire, Reverien;
Kayiranga, Dieudonne;
Ryamukuru, David;
Nyirazigama, Alice;
Mukankusi, Juliet;
Bagirisano, Justine;
Igikundiro, Christine;
Niyikiza, M Eric;
Mukeshimana, Madeleine;
Mugarura, John;
Oluyinka, Adejumo.
Background To continue delivering the courses despite school closure during the covid-19 pandemic, the University of Rwanda abruptly shifted its teaching from traditional physical to online teaching. This was the compulsory medium of teaching during the lockdown period. This sudden change did not allow f...
Background Covid-19 has unquantifiable negative impacts on the world’s socio-economic parameters. The rapid discovery of vaccines to fight this pandemic is a monumental scientific breakthrough. Study objective The study assessed willingness of adult Nigerians to accept Covid-19 vaccine and elucidated o...
Nyiringango, Gerard;
Umubyeyi, Benoite;
Nyirazigama, Alice;
Mukankusi, Juliet;
Mukeshimana, Madeleine;
Mugarura, John;
Bagirisano, Justine;
Kayiranga, Dieudonne;
Ryamukuru, David;
Igikundiro, Christine;
Rutayisire, Reverien;
Niyikiza, Eric M;
Adejumo, Oluyinka.
Background Towards the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic spread worldwide and caused many schools to close. Many educational institutions transitioned from traditional face-to-face or blended to a total e-learning approach. The University of Rwanda rapidly shifted from a blended teaching and learn...
O Comité Nacional de Bioética para a Saúde em Moçambique (CNBS) tem como missão principal fazer a revisão, para aprovação ética, de todas as propostas de pesquisa em saúde, que envolvam seres humanos, realizadas em todo o território nacional, submetidas pelos investigadores, sejam estes n...
No período da pandemia deCovid-19 um dos grupos mais vulneráveis é aquele composto por trabalhadores imigrantes. Longe de seus países, muitos deles não recebem assistência médica ao mesmo tempo que continuam trabalhando normalmente por desempenharem funções consideradas essenciais. Além di...
A Covid-19 trouxe ao mundo uma nova dinâmica de vida, obrigando que os Conselhos Consultivos Nacionais de Bioética de muitos países, principalmente os africanos (Togo, Argélia) e alguns europeus (França e Portugal), se reinventassem para se adequarem ao contexto. Dentro da sua linha...
In 2020, COVID-19 started spreading from Wuhan in China to the USA, the UK and Europe and then to the rest of the world. In Africa, the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Egypt on 14 February, while South Africa’s first case was identified on 5 March. On 11 March, the World Health Organization decl...
Introduction : La maladie à CIVD 19 a été déclarée par l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS) ‘urgence de santé publique de portée internationale’ le 30 janvier 2020 [1] et ‘pandémie’ le 11 mars 2020 Son impact bnégatif est visible dans tous les secteurs de la société humaine jus...
An outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus
(SARS-CoV-2) has been spreading rapidly across the world since December 2019, following the diagnosis of the initial cases in Wuhan, China. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pand...
