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Public health-relevant consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented challenges to health systems worldwide, including the control of non-COVID-19 diseases. Malaria cases and deaths may increase due to the direct and indirect effects of the pandemic in malaria-endemic countries, particularly in sub-Sahar...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8355579/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34380494 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03872-2 |
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author | Heuschen, Anna-Katharina Lu, Guangyu Razum, Oliver Abdul-Mumin, Alhassan Sankoh, Osman von Seidlein, Lorenz D’Alessandro, Umberto Müller, Olaf |
author_facet | Heuschen, Anna-Katharina Lu, Guangyu Razum, Oliver Abdul-Mumin, Alhassan Sankoh, Osman von Seidlein, Lorenz D’Alessandro, Umberto Müller, Olaf |
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description | BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented challenges to health systems worldwide, including the control of non-COVID-19 diseases. Malaria cases and deaths may increase due to the direct and indirect effects of the pandemic in malaria-endemic countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This scoping review aims to summarize information on public health-relevant effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the malaria situation in SSA. METHODS: Review of publications and manuscripts on preprint servers, in peer-reviewed journals and in grey literature documents from 1 December, 2019 to 9 June, 2021. A structured search was conducted on different databases using predefined eligibility criteria for the selection of articles. RESULTS: A total of 51 papers have been included in the analysis. Modelling papers have predicted a significant increase in malaria cases and malaria deaths in SSA due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many papers provided potential explanations for expected COVID-19 effects on the malaria burden; these ranged from relevant diagnostical and clinical aspects to reduced access to health care services, impaired availability of curative and preventive commodities and medications, and effects on malaria prevention campaigns. Compared to previous years, fewer country reports provided data on the actual number of malaria cases and deaths in 2020, with mixed results. While highly endemic countries reported evidence of decreased malaria cases in health facilities, low endemic countries reported overall higher numbers of malaria cases and deaths in 2020. CONCLUSIONS: The findings from this review provide evidence for a significant but diverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria in SSA. There is the need to further investigate the public health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on the malaria burden. Protocol registered on Open Science Framework: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/STQ9D |
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spelling | pubmed-83555792021-08-11 Public health-relevant consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review Heuschen, Anna-Katharina Lu, Guangyu Razum, Oliver Abdul-Mumin, Alhassan Sankoh, Osman von Seidlein, Lorenz D’Alessandro, Umberto Müller, Olaf Malar J Review BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented challenges to health systems worldwide, including the control of non-COVID-19 diseases. Malaria cases and deaths may increase due to the direct and indirect effects of the pandemic in malaria-endemic countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This scoping review aims to summarize information on public health-relevant effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the malaria situation in SSA. METHODS: Review of publications and manuscripts on preprint servers, in peer-reviewed journals and in grey literature documents from 1 December, 2019 to 9 June, 2021. A structured search was conducted on different databases using predefined eligibility criteria for the selection of articles. RESULTS: A total of 51 papers have been included in the analysis. Modelling papers have predicted a significant increase in malaria cases and malaria deaths in SSA due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many papers provided potential explanations for expected COVID-19 effects on the malaria burden; these ranged from relevant diagnostical and clinical aspects to reduced access to health care services, impaired availability of curative and preventive commodities and medications, and effects on malaria prevention campaigns. Compared to previous years, fewer country reports provided data on the actual number of malaria cases and deaths in 2020, with mixed results. While highly endemic countries reported evidence of decreased malaria cases in health facilities, low endemic countries reported overall higher numbers of malaria cases and deaths in 2020. CONCLUSIONS: The findings from this review provide evidence for a significant but diverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria in SSA. There is the need to further investigate the public health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on the malaria burden. Protocol registered on Open Science Framework: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/STQ9D BioMed Central 2021-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8355579/ /pubmed/34380494 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03872-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Review Heuschen, Anna-Katharina Lu, Guangyu Razum, Oliver Abdul-Mumin, Alhassan Sankoh, Osman von Seidlein, Lorenz D’Alessandro, Umberto Müller, Olaf Public health-relevant consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review |
title | Public health-relevant consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review |
title_full | Public health-relevant consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review |
title_fullStr | Public health-relevant consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review |
title_full_unstemmed | Public health-relevant consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review |
title_short | Public health-relevant consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review |
title_sort | public health-relevant consequences of the covid-19 pandemic on malaria in sub-saharan africa: a scoping review |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8355579/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34380494 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03872-2 |
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