Threats and outbreaks of cholera in Africa amidst COVID-19 pandemic: a double burden on Africa’s health systems

Every year, about 4 million cases and 143,000 deaths due to cholera are recorded globally, of which 54% were from Africa, reported in 2016. The outbreak and spread of cholera have risen exponentially particularly in Africa. Coupled with the recent emergence of the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) in...

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Autores principales: Uwishema, Olivier, Okereke, Melody, Onyeaka, Helen, Hasan, Mohammad Mehedi, Donatus, Deocles, Martin, Zebadiah, Oluwatomisin, Lawal Abdulwahab, Mhanna, Melissa, Olumide, Adesipe Olaoluwa, Sun, Jeffrey, Adanur, Irem
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8611385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34819175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-021-00376-2
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author Uwishema, Olivier
Okereke, Melody
Onyeaka, Helen
Hasan, Mohammad Mehedi
Donatus, Deocles
Martin, Zebadiah
Oluwatomisin, Lawal Abdulwahab
Mhanna, Melissa
Olumide, Adesipe Olaoluwa
Sun, Jeffrey
Adanur, Irem
author_facet Uwishema, Olivier
Okereke, Melody
Onyeaka, Helen
Hasan, Mohammad Mehedi
Donatus, Deocles
Martin, Zebadiah
Oluwatomisin, Lawal Abdulwahab
Mhanna, Melissa
Olumide, Adesipe Olaoluwa
Sun, Jeffrey
Adanur, Irem
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description Every year, about 4 million cases and 143,000 deaths due to cholera are recorded globally, of which 54% were from Africa, reported in 2016. The outbreak and spread of cholera have risen exponentially particularly in Africa. Coupled with the recent emergence of the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) in Africa, the local health systems are facing a double burden of these infectious diseases due to their cumulative impact. In this paper, we evaluate the dual impact of cholera and COVID-19 in Africa and suggest plausible interventions that can be put in place to cushion its impact.
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spelling pubmed-86113852021-11-24 Threats and outbreaks of cholera in Africa amidst COVID-19 pandemic: a double burden on Africa’s health systems Uwishema, Olivier Okereke, Melody Onyeaka, Helen Hasan, Mohammad Mehedi Donatus, Deocles Martin, Zebadiah Oluwatomisin, Lawal Abdulwahab Mhanna, Melissa Olumide, Adesipe Olaoluwa Sun, Jeffrey Adanur, Irem Trop Med Health Letter to the Editor Every year, about 4 million cases and 143,000 deaths due to cholera are recorded globally, of which 54% were from Africa, reported in 2016. The outbreak and spread of cholera have risen exponentially particularly in Africa. Coupled with the recent emergence of the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) in Africa, the local health systems are facing a double burden of these infectious diseases due to their cumulative impact. In this paper, we evaluate the dual impact of cholera and COVID-19 in Africa and suggest plausible interventions that can be put in place to cushion its impact. BioMed Central 2021-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8611385/ /pubmed/34819175 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-021-00376-2 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/) .
spellingShingle Letter to the Editor
Uwishema, Olivier
Okereke, Melody
Onyeaka, Helen
Hasan, Mohammad Mehedi
Donatus, Deocles
Martin, Zebadiah
Oluwatomisin, Lawal Abdulwahab
Mhanna, Melissa
Olumide, Adesipe Olaoluwa
Sun, Jeffrey
Adanur, Irem
Threats and outbreaks of cholera in Africa amidst COVID-19 pandemic: a double burden on Africa’s health systems
title Threats and outbreaks of cholera in Africa amidst COVID-19 pandemic: a double burden on Africa’s health systems
title_full Threats and outbreaks of cholera in Africa amidst COVID-19 pandemic: a double burden on Africa’s health systems
title_fullStr Threats and outbreaks of cholera in Africa amidst COVID-19 pandemic: a double burden on Africa’s health systems
title_full_unstemmed Threats and outbreaks of cholera in Africa amidst COVID-19 pandemic: a double burden on Africa’s health systems
title_short Threats and outbreaks of cholera in Africa amidst COVID-19 pandemic: a double burden on Africa’s health systems
title_sort threats and outbreaks of cholera in africa amidst covid-19 pandemic: a double burden on africa’s health systems
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8611385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34819175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-021-00376-2
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