Is Nigeria prepared and ready to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in its conflict-affected northeastern states?

Northeastern Nigeria has over the decade suffered from the Boko Haram insurgency and is still in the process of recovery from the complex humanitarian crisis that has displaced and subjected millions of vulnerable children, women and elderly population to poverty, disease outbreaks, hunger and malnu...

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Autores principales: Tijjani, Salman Jidda, Ma, Le
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7251554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32460766
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01192-6
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description Northeastern Nigeria has over the decade suffered from the Boko Haram insurgency and is still in the process of recovery from the complex humanitarian crisis that has displaced and subjected millions of vulnerable children, women and elderly population to poverty, disease outbreaks, hunger and malnutrition. Yet, the conflict-affected states in Northeastern Nigeria is not far away from being the worse-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic if urgent public health preventive measures are not taken to contain the spread of the deadly and highly infectious virus. The question arises, “what is Nigeria doing to tackle the burden of a COVID-19 spread and an ongoing humanitarian crisis?
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spelling pubmed-72515542020-05-27 Is Nigeria prepared and ready to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in its conflict-affected northeastern states? Tijjani, Salman Jidda Ma, Le Int J Equity Health Commentary Northeastern Nigeria has over the decade suffered from the Boko Haram insurgency and is still in the process of recovery from the complex humanitarian crisis that has displaced and subjected millions of vulnerable children, women and elderly population to poverty, disease outbreaks, hunger and malnutrition. Yet, the conflict-affected states in Northeastern Nigeria is not far away from being the worse-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic if urgent public health preventive measures are not taken to contain the spread of the deadly and highly infectious virus. The question arises, “what is Nigeria doing to tackle the burden of a COVID-19 spread and an ongoing humanitarian crisis? BioMed Central 2020-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7251554/ /pubmed/32460766 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01192-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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title_full_unstemmed Is Nigeria prepared and ready to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in its conflict-affected northeastern states?
title_short Is Nigeria prepared and ready to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in its conflict-affected northeastern states?
title_sort is nigeria prepared and ready to respond to the covid-19 pandemic in its conflict-affected northeastern states?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7251554/
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