Leveraging investments in Ebola preparedness for COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa

The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in China and transmission to more than 80 territories worldwide, including nine countries in Africa, presents a delicate situation for low-resource settings. Countries in Eastern and Central Africa have been on high alert since mid-2018 in anticipation of regional spread...

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Autores principales: Ayebare, Rodgers, Waitt, Peter, Okello, Stephen, Kayiira, Mubaraka, Atim Ajok, Maureen, Nakatudde, Irene, Bhadelia, Nahid, Lamorde, Mohammed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000 Research Limited 2020
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Open Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7236423/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32500116
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/aasopenres.13052.1
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author Ayebare, Rodgers
Waitt, Peter
Okello, Stephen
Kayiira, Mubaraka
Atim Ajok, Maureen
Nakatudde, Irene
Bhadelia, Nahid
Lamorde, Mohammed
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Waitt, Peter
Okello, Stephen
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Nakatudde, Irene
Bhadelia, Nahid
Lamorde, Mohammed
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description The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in China and transmission to more than 80 territories worldwide, including nine countries in Africa, presents a delicate situation for low-resource settings. Countries in Eastern and Central Africa have been on high alert since mid-2018 in anticipation of regional spread of the Ebola virus from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Significant investment has been made to support enhanced surveillance at point of entry and hospitals, infection control practices, clinical case management, and clinical research. With a new threat on the horizon, African countries have an opportunity to leverage the existing capacities for Ebola preparedness to brace for the imminent threat.
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spelling pubmed-72364232020-06-03 Leveraging investments in Ebola preparedness for COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa Ayebare, Rodgers Waitt, Peter Okello, Stephen Kayiira, Mubaraka Atim Ajok, Maureen Nakatudde, Irene Bhadelia, Nahid Lamorde, Mohammed AAS Open Res Open Letter The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in China and transmission to more than 80 territories worldwide, including nine countries in Africa, presents a delicate situation for low-resource settings. Countries in Eastern and Central Africa have been on high alert since mid-2018 in anticipation of regional spread of the Ebola virus from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Significant investment has been made to support enhanced surveillance at point of entry and hospitals, infection control practices, clinical case management, and clinical research. With a new threat on the horizon, African countries have an opportunity to leverage the existing capacities for Ebola preparedness to brace for the imminent threat. F1000 Research Limited 2020-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7236423/ /pubmed/32500116 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/aasopenres.13052.1 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Ayebare R et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lamorde, Mohammed
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