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The impact of COVID-19 on the tuberculosis control activities in Addis Ababa
The first COVID-19 case was reported in Ethiopia on 13(th) March 2020 and series of announcements of set of measures, proclamation and directives have been enacted to fight the coronavirus pandemic. These have implications for the regular health services including the TB control program. This brief...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8164422/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34104291 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.243.27132 |
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author | Beyene, Negussie Wodajo Sitotaw, Alemu Lakew Tegegn, Ben Bobosha, Kidist |
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description | The first COVID-19 case was reported in Ethiopia on 13(th) March 2020 and series of announcements of set of measures, proclamation and directives have been enacted to fight the coronavirus pandemic. These have implications for the regular health services including the TB control program. This brief communication assesses the impact of the COVID-19 response on the TB control activities of Addis Ababa health centers based on research project data. We compared the patient flows in pre-COVID-19 period (quarter 1, Q1) and during COVID-19 (quarter 2, Q2 and quarter 3, Q3) of 2020 at 56 health centers in Addis Ababa from all 10 sub-cities per sub-city. The patient flow declined from 3,473 in Q1 to 1,062 in Q2 and 1,074 in Q3, which is a decrease by 62-76% and 52-80% in Q2 and Q3 respectively as compared to that of Q1. In Q2, Kolfe keranio and Kirkos sub-cities recorded the biggest decline (76 and 75% respectively) whereas Yeka sub-city had the least decline (62%). In Q3, Kirkos sub-city had the biggest decline (80%) and Addis ketema sub-city had the lowest (52%). We conclude that the series of measures, state of emergency proclamation and government directives issued to counter the spread of COVID-19 and the public response to these significantly affected the TB control activities in Addis Ababa city as attested by the decrease in the patient flow at the clinics. Health authorities may inform the public that essential health services are still available and open to everyone in need of these services. |
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spelling | pubmed-81644222021-06-07 The impact of COVID-19 on the tuberculosis control activities in Addis Ababa Beyene, Negussie Wodajo Sitotaw, Alemu Lakew Tegegn, Ben Bobosha, Kidist Pan Afr Med J Short Communication The first COVID-19 case was reported in Ethiopia on 13(th) March 2020 and series of announcements of set of measures, proclamation and directives have been enacted to fight the coronavirus pandemic. These have implications for the regular health services including the TB control program. This brief communication assesses the impact of the COVID-19 response on the TB control activities of Addis Ababa health centers based on research project data. We compared the patient flows in pre-COVID-19 period (quarter 1, Q1) and during COVID-19 (quarter 2, Q2 and quarter 3, Q3) of 2020 at 56 health centers in Addis Ababa from all 10 sub-cities per sub-city. The patient flow declined from 3,473 in Q1 to 1,062 in Q2 and 1,074 in Q3, which is a decrease by 62-76% and 52-80% in Q2 and Q3 respectively as compared to that of Q1. In Q2, Kolfe keranio and Kirkos sub-cities recorded the biggest decline (76 and 75% respectively) whereas Yeka sub-city had the least decline (62%). In Q3, Kirkos sub-city had the biggest decline (80%) and Addis ketema sub-city had the lowest (52%). We conclude that the series of measures, state of emergency proclamation and government directives issued to counter the spread of COVID-19 and the public response to these significantly affected the TB control activities in Addis Ababa city as attested by the decrease in the patient flow at the clinics. Health authorities may inform the public that essential health services are still available and open to everyone in need of these services. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8164422/ /pubmed/34104291 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.243.27132 Text en Copyright: Negussie Wodajo Beyene 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. |
spellingShingle | Short Communication Beyene, Negussie Wodajo Sitotaw, Alemu Lakew Tegegn, Ben Bobosha, Kidist The impact of COVID-19 on the tuberculosis control activities in Addis Ababa |
title | The impact of COVID-19 on the tuberculosis control activities in Addis Ababa |
title_full | The impact of COVID-19 on the tuberculosis control activities in Addis Ababa |
title_fullStr | The impact of COVID-19 on the tuberculosis control activities in Addis Ababa |
title_full_unstemmed | The impact of COVID-19 on the tuberculosis control activities in Addis Ababa |
title_short | The impact of COVID-19 on the tuberculosis control activities in Addis Ababa |
title_sort | impact of covid-19 on the tuberculosis control activities in addis ababa |
topic | Short Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8164422/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34104291 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.243.27132 |
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