Click here to read the French Version of this COVID-19 In Africa Blog The daily coronavirus figures in Guinea make no mention of the socio-professional category of infected people. However, healthcare workers are at increased risk of contracting and spreading the virus. This blog is an update of our posts published in April and May […]
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Santé mentale et COVID-19 en soins de santé primaires en Guinée: Entre stigmatisation et solidarité
Click here to read the English Version of this COVID-19 In Africa Blog En Guinée, les statistiques de la pandémie à coronavirus publiées quotidiennement ne font pas mention des catégories socio-professionnelles des personnes infectées. Toutefois, le personnel de santé fait partie des groupes à risque pour transmettre et contracter la maladie. Ce blogue fait suite […]
Social media and the spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria
The spread of COVID-19 has been relatively lower in Africa. Factors including age distribution and rurality have been proposed to contribute to this. Nigeria, the most populous African nation is predicted to have the most infections in the continent. Since the country’s index case, dynamics such as population density, urbanisation, poverty, and existing comorbidities […]
COVID-19 en Mauritanie : L’épidémie reprend ?
Click here to read the English Version of this COVID-19 In Africa Blog Après une période avec un nombre de cas de covid-19 modeste, et un sentiment d’espoir que la bataille a été gagnée, la situation a drastiquement changé depuis. En effet, un vieil adage nous dit « il ne faut pas vendre la peau de […]
COVID-19 in Mauritania: The epidemic resumes?
Click here to read the French Version of this COVID-19 In Africa Blog There was a sense of hope and a feeling of victory when we saw the numbers of COVID-19 cases drop in Mauritania. However, shortly afterwards the situation changed drastically and the old proverb ” don’t sell the bear’s skin before you have […]
COVID-19: A need to revalue the first line of care: notes from the Tshamilemba Health Centre , Congo
COVID-19 : Une nécessité de revaloriser la première ligne des soins Entre détection et protection au Centre de Santé Tshamilemba, Lubumbashi, République Démocratique du Congo The government has been working on biological control measures such as laboratory research into viruses and vaccines. Their focus lies first and foremost on measures to change people’s […]
COVID-19 : fears, anger, reflection and enlightenment
The Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has generated a lot of storm in the social media — much of it being misinformation or propaganda. Mainstream scientists and public officials have summarily dismissed them as fake or as conspiracy theories. But it is fear of the pandemic at the root of this widespread misinformation. And behind […]
Scaling Up Capacity for COVID-19 Testing in the Philippines
Four months since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the Philippines, the number of cases has risen into the thousands. Testing capacity has expanded rapidly, but testing continues to limit the Philippines response. The Philippines has adopted a “whole of government, whole of society” approach to address this global pandemic, grouped around four […]
Providing primary care in COVID-19 lockdown to rural, underserved areas of Rajasthan, India
The first case of SARS-COV-2 was reported in India in 30th January 2020. A few months down the line, the Government of India announced a sudden lockdown on 24th March. Following the lockdown, all local transport, private and public, came to a halt, private healthcare providers closed their clinics, and government health facilities significantly […]
Remembering February
Looking ahead was what America taught me. As a medical student from India, hospitals were my introduction to American preparedness. When Ebola hit, our hospital created a separate unit and response team way ahead of time. It was a ritual, almost a way of life to account for uncertainty and redundancy. This rigorous prep […]