The COVID-19 response must integrate people living with HIV needs in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Mali

The first COVID-19 cases in Mali were reported almost 1 month after the first case in the African continent. However, the outbreak continues to spread faster there than in other countries which, along with Mali, successfully tackled the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Africa. Given this context, specific act...

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Autores principales: Sagaon-Teyssier, Luis, Yattassaye, Adam, Bourrelly, Michel, Dembélé Keïta, Bintou, Spire, Bruno
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7268587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32514230
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-020-00228-5
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author Sagaon-Teyssier, Luis
Yattassaye, Adam
Bourrelly, Michel
Dembélé Keïta, Bintou
Spire, Bruno
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description The first COVID-19 cases in Mali were reported almost 1 month after the first case in the African continent. However, the outbreak continues to spread faster there than in other countries which, along with Mali, successfully tackled the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Africa. Given this context, specific actions targeting people living with HIV (PLWH) are needed to reinforce prevention. Community-based involvement is crucial to ensure continuity of care and treatment for PLWH. Furthermore, the health of frontline healthcare workers must take priority in any actions taken. The long-established trustful relationship between NGOs and PLWH in Mali is indispensable to disseminate key messages about COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-72685872020-06-04 The COVID-19 response must integrate people living with HIV needs in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Mali Sagaon-Teyssier, Luis Yattassaye, Adam Bourrelly, Michel Dembélé Keïta, Bintou Spire, Bruno Trop Med Health Letter to the Editor The first COVID-19 cases in Mali were reported almost 1 month after the first case in the African continent. However, the outbreak continues to spread faster there than in other countries which, along with Mali, successfully tackled the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Africa. Given this context, specific actions targeting people living with HIV (PLWH) are needed to reinforce prevention. Community-based involvement is crucial to ensure continuity of care and treatment for PLWH. Furthermore, the health of frontline healthcare workers must take priority in any actions taken. The long-established trustful relationship between NGOs and PLWH in Mali is indispensable to disseminate key messages about COVID-19. BioMed Central 2020-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7268587/ /pubmed/32514230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-020-00228-5 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/.
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Sagaon-Teyssier, Luis
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Spire, Bruno
The COVID-19 response must integrate people living with HIV needs in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Mali
title The COVID-19 response must integrate people living with HIV needs in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Mali
title_full The COVID-19 response must integrate people living with HIV needs in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Mali
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7268587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32514230
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-020-00228-5
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