The challenges of COVID-19 testing in Africa: the Ethiopian experience

Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is spreading rapidly and creating a huge economic, social and public health challenge worldwide. Although currently an effective vaccine is ready, its distribution is limited, and hence the only currently available lever to reduce transmission is to identify and...

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Autores principales: Mulu, Andargachew, Bekele, Amsalu, Abdissa, Alemseged, Balcha, Taye Tolera, Habtamu, Meseret, Mihret, Adane, Alemayehu, Dawit Hailu, Beyene, Getachew Tesfaye, Bayih, Abebe Genetu
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021
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Opinion
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7825374/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33520075
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.6.26902
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author Mulu, Andargachew
Bekele, Amsalu
Abdissa, Alemseged
Balcha, Taye Tolera
Habtamu, Meseret
Mihret, Adane
Alemayehu, Dawit Hailu
Beyene, Getachew Tesfaye
Bayih, Abebe Genetu
author_facet Mulu, Andargachew
Bekele, Amsalu
Abdissa, Alemseged
Balcha, Taye Tolera
Habtamu, Meseret
Mihret, Adane
Alemayehu, Dawit Hailu
Beyene, Getachew Tesfaye
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description Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is spreading rapidly and creating a huge economic, social and public health challenge worldwide. Although currently an effective vaccine is ready, its distribution is limited, and hence the only currently available lever to reduce transmission is to identify and isolate individuals who are contagious. Thus, testing for SARS CoV-2 has a paramount importance. However, testing in many African countries including Ethiopia has multidimensional growing challenges. Here, we tried to identify, categorize and summarize the challenges of COVID-19 testing in Africa from Ethiopian experience.
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spelling pubmed-78253742021-01-29 The challenges of COVID-19 testing in Africa: the Ethiopian experience Mulu, Andargachew Bekele, Amsalu Abdissa, Alemseged Balcha, Taye Tolera Habtamu, Meseret Mihret, Adane Alemayehu, Dawit Hailu Beyene, Getachew Tesfaye Bayih, Abebe Genetu Pan Afr Med J Opinion Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is spreading rapidly and creating a huge economic, social and public health challenge worldwide. Although currently an effective vaccine is ready, its distribution is limited, and hence the only currently available lever to reduce transmission is to identify and isolate individuals who are contagious. Thus, testing for SARS CoV-2 has a paramount importance. However, testing in many African countries including Ethiopia has multidimensional growing challenges. Here, we tried to identify, categorize and summarize the challenges of COVID-19 testing in Africa from Ethiopian experience. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7825374/ /pubmed/33520075 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.6.26902 Text en Copyright: Andargachew Mulu 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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Mulu, Andargachew
Bekele, Amsalu
Abdissa, Alemseged
Balcha, Taye Tolera
Habtamu, Meseret
Mihret, Adane
Alemayehu, Dawit Hailu
Beyene, Getachew Tesfaye
Bayih, Abebe Genetu
The challenges of COVID-19 testing in Africa: the Ethiopian experience
title The challenges of COVID-19 testing in Africa: the Ethiopian experience
title_full The challenges of COVID-19 testing in Africa: the Ethiopian experience
title_fullStr The challenges of COVID-19 testing in Africa: the Ethiopian experience
title_full_unstemmed The challenges of COVID-19 testing in Africa: the Ethiopian experience
title_short The challenges of COVID-19 testing in Africa: the Ethiopian experience
title_sort challenges of covid-19 testing in africa: the ethiopian experience
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7825374/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33520075
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.6.26902
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