Maintaining robust HIV and tuberculosis services in the COVID-19 era: A public health dilemma in Zimbabwe

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has challenged health systems worldwide. In Zimbabwe, the COVID-19 response has seen the diversion of human capital, equipment, and other resources that were meant for the HIV and tuberculosis (TB) programmes. In a country with one of the worst HIV and TB burdens...

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Autores principales: Mukwenha, Solomon, Dzinamarira, Tafadzwa, Mugurungi, Owen, Musuka, Godfrey
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2020
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7513822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32979586
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.09.1425
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description Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has challenged health systems worldwide. In Zimbabwe, the COVID-19 response has seen the diversion of human capital, equipment, and other resources that were meant for the HIV and tuberculosis (TB) programmes. In a country with one of the worst HIV and TB burdens globally, the authors discuss this public health dilemma of sustained HIV and TB services in the context of a new threat – COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-75138222020-09-25 Maintaining robust HIV and tuberculosis services in the COVID-19 era: A public health dilemma in Zimbabwe Mukwenha, Solomon Dzinamarira, Tafadzwa Mugurungi, Owen Musuka, Godfrey Int J Infect Dis Perspective Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has challenged health systems worldwide. In Zimbabwe, the COVID-19 response has seen the diversion of human capital, equipment, and other resources that were meant for the HIV and tuberculosis (TB) programmes. In a country with one of the worst HIV and TB burdens globally, the authors discuss this public health dilemma of sustained HIV and TB services in the context of a new threat – COVID-19. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2020-11 2020-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7513822/ /pubmed/32979586 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.09.1425 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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title_full Maintaining robust HIV and tuberculosis services in the COVID-19 era: A public health dilemma in Zimbabwe
title_fullStr Maintaining robust HIV and tuberculosis services in the COVID-19 era: A public health dilemma in Zimbabwe
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title_short Maintaining robust HIV and tuberculosis services in the COVID-19 era: A public health dilemma in Zimbabwe
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.09.1425
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