COVID-19: Science and global health governance under attack

JA Singh - South African Medical Journal, 2020 - journals.co.za
Less than 3 months after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a Public
Health Emergency of International Concern,[1] and within a month of the WHO declaring …

How South Africa's ministerial advisory committee on COVID-19 can be optimised

JA Singh - South African Medical Journal, 2020 - journals.co.za
South Africa (SA) recorded its first COVID-19 case on 5 March 2020. Since then, the country
has declared a State of Disaster on 15 March 2020,[1] a strict 3-week 'lockdown', effective 26 …

Africa in the path of Covid-19

WM El-Sadr, J Justman - New England Journal of Medicine, 2020 - Mass Medical Soc
Africa in the Path of Covid-19 Despite intensive preparations by African countries that are no
strangers to epidemics, we should have no illusions that Africa can confront the Covid-19 …

[HTML][HTML] The generals and the war against COVID-19: The case of Zimbabwe

N Maulani, IN Nyadera, B Wandekha - Journal of global health, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Over three decades of economic crisis, characterised by hyper-inflation, unemployment, and
corruption, overall public service delivery in Zimbabwe including the health sector has been …

Will Africa experience a spike in COVID-19 cases?

T Chia, OI Oyeniran - Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Due to increase in trade and air travel between countries affected by the novel coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic and Africa [1], Africa stands to be at a high risk of a …

COVID-19 gives the lie to global health expertise

SL Dalglish - The lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak began spreading in Europe and the
USA, a chart started circulating online showing ratings from the 2019 Global Health Security …

[HTML][HTML] Rethinking the COVID-19 pandemic: back to public health

T Collins, S Akselrod, A Bloomfield… - Annals of global …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Africa's response to COVID-19

C Ihekweazu, E Agogo - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background As the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues to spread, countries in sub-
Saharan Africa are still experiencing outbreaks of other infectious diseases; the top causes …

[HTML][HTML] Nigeria's public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic: January to May 2020

C Dan-Nwafor, CL Ochu, K Elimian… - Journal of global …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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 …

COVID-19 in Africa: the spread and response

M Massinga Loembe, A Tshangela, SJ Salyer… - Nature Medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Given the current trends in incidence and underlying healthcare systems vulnerabilities,
Africa could become the next epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the pandemic …