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COVID-19 pandemic and the widening gap to access cancer services in Uganda

The COVID-19 pandemic and its public health control measures have led to worldwide interruptions in healthcare service delivery, and cancer services are no exception. These interruptions have exacerbated the effects of previously reported barriers to accessing cancer care which was reportedly low ev...

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Autores principales: Abila, Derrick Bary, Ainembabazi, Provia, Wabinga, Henry
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7608761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33193955
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2020.35.140.25029
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description The COVID-19 pandemic and its public health control measures have led to worldwide interruptions in healthcare service delivery, and cancer services are no exception. These interruptions have exacerbated the effects of previously reported barriers to accessing cancer care which was reportedly low even before the pandemic. If these effects are not mitigated, the achievements in cancer control that had already been made could be watered down. Measuring the impact of COVID-19 pandemic control measures on delivery of and access to cancer services in Uganda as well as other countries worldwide can inform the design of current and future responses to epidemics while putting into context other diseases like cancer that have a high burden.
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spelling pubmed-76087612020-11-13 COVID-19 pandemic and the widening gap to access cancer services in Uganda Abila, Derrick Bary Ainembabazi, Provia Wabinga, Henry Pan Afr Med J Commentary The COVID-19 pandemic and its public health control measures have led to worldwide interruptions in healthcare service delivery, and cancer services are no exception. These interruptions have exacerbated the effects of previously reported barriers to accessing cancer care which was reportedly low even before the pandemic. If these effects are not mitigated, the achievements in cancer control that had already been made could be watered down. Measuring the impact of COVID-19 pandemic control measures on delivery of and access to cancer services in Uganda as well as other countries worldwide can inform the design of current and future responses to epidemics while putting into context other diseases like cancer that have a high burden. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7608761/ /pubmed/33193955 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2020.35.140.25029 Text en Copyright: Derrick Bary Abila et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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