The status of neglected tropical diseases amidst COVID-19 in Africa: Current evidence and recommendations

Health care services and programs directed towards combating the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) have been disrupted because of the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The African continent because of its staggering health care system and poor economy disproportionately bears the b...

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Autores principales: Akinokun, Rafiat Tolulope, Ilesanmi, Esther Bosede, Adebisi, Yusuff Adebayo, Akingbade, Oluwadamilare
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tabriz University of Medical Sciences 2021
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8767084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35079586
http://dx.doi.org/10.34172/hpp.2021.53
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author Akinokun, Rafiat Tolulope
Ilesanmi, Esther Bosede
Adebisi, Yusuff Adebayo
Akingbade, Oluwadamilare
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description Health care services and programs directed towards combating the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) have been disrupted because of the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The African continent because of its staggering health care system and poor economy disproportionately bears the burden of these diseases. While successes have been recorded in controlling and eliminating the NTDs, policymakers in Africa should consider the potential of the COVID-19 to dwindle these successes an issue of high priority. This commentary seeks to discuss the current status of NTDs in Africa and proffer recommendations to help combat these diseases at this period. It is worthy to say that similar dedication directed towards fighting the COVID-19 should also be deployed into eliminating other diseases like the NTDs which often, are neglected.
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spelling pubmed-87670842022-01-24 The status of neglected tropical diseases amidst COVID-19 in Africa: Current evidence and recommendations Akinokun, Rafiat Tolulope Ilesanmi, Esther Bosede Adebisi, Yusuff Adebayo Akingbade, Oluwadamilare Health Promot Perspect Perspective Health care services and programs directed towards combating the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) have been disrupted because of the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The African continent because of its staggering health care system and poor economy disproportionately bears the burden of these diseases. While successes have been recorded in controlling and eliminating the NTDs, policymakers in Africa should consider the potential of the COVID-19 to dwindle these successes an issue of high priority. This commentary seeks to discuss the current status of NTDs in Africa and proffer recommendations to help combat these diseases at this period. It is worthy to say that similar dedication directed towards fighting the COVID-19 should also be deployed into eliminating other diseases like the NTDs which often, are neglected. Tabriz University of Medical Sciences 2021-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8767084/ /pubmed/35079586 http://dx.doi.org/10.34172/hpp.2021.53 Text en © 2021 The Author(s). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://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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The status of neglected tropical diseases amidst COVID-19 in Africa: Current evidence and recommendations
title The status of neglected tropical diseases amidst COVID-19 in Africa: Current evidence and recommendations
title_full The status of neglected tropical diseases amidst COVID-19 in Africa: Current evidence and recommendations
title_fullStr The status of neglected tropical diseases amidst COVID-19 in Africa: Current evidence and recommendations
title_full_unstemmed The status of neglected tropical diseases amidst COVID-19 in Africa: Current evidence and recommendations
title_short The status of neglected tropical diseases amidst COVID-19 in Africa: Current evidence and recommendations
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http://dx.doi.org/10.34172/hpp.2021.53
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