ReviewBMJ global health2021
COVID-19 in West Africa: regional resource mobilisation and allocation in the first year of the pandemic.
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- Monkeypox outbreak: a perspective on Africa's diagnostic and containment capacity.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2022Article
- The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the ECOWAS region.Ghana medical journal · 2022Article
- Factors influencing hesitancy towards adult and child COVID-19 vaccines in rural and urban West Africa: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2022Observational
- An in-depth statistical analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic's initial spread in the WHO African region.BMJ global health · 2022Article
- Epidemiological Trends of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Sierra Leone From March 2020 to October 2021.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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- Lessons from COVID-19 for GCR governance: a research agenda.F1000Research · 2022Article
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Abstract
The world continues to battle the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Whereas many countries are currently experiencing the second wave of the outbreak; Africa, despite being the last continent to be affected by the virus, has not experienced as much devastation as other continents. For example, West Africa, with a population of 367 million people, had confirmed 412 178 cases of COVID-19 with 5363 deaths as of 14 March 2021; compared with the USA which had recorded almost 30 million cases and 530 000 deaths, despite having a slightly smaller population (328 million). Several postulations have been made in an attempt to explain this phenomenon. One hypothesis is that African countries have leveraged on experiences from past epidemics to build resilience and response strategies which may be contributing to protecting the continent's health systems from being overwhelmed. This practice paper from the West African Health Organization presents experience and data from the field on how countries in the region mobilised support to address the pandemic in the first year, leveraging on systems, infrastructure, capacities developed and experiences from the 2014 Ebola virus disease outbreak.
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