Leveraging investments in Ebola preparedness for COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa [version 1; peer review: 3 approved]
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in China and transmission to more than 80 territories worldwide, including nine countries in Africa, presents a delicate situation for low-resource settings. Countries in Eastern and Central Africa have been on high alert since mid-2018 in anticipation of regional spread...
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| author | Rodgers Ayebare Peter Waitt Stephen Okello Mubaraka Kayiira Maureen Atim Ajok Irene Nakatudde Nahid Bhadelia Mohammed Lamorde |
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| description | The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in China and transmission to more than 80 territories worldwide, including nine countries in Africa, presents a delicate situation for low-resource settings. Countries in Eastern and Central Africa have been on high alert since mid-2018 in anticipation of regional spread of the Ebola virus from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Significant investment has been made to support enhanced surveillance at point of entry and hospitals, infection control practices, clinical case management, and clinical research. With a new threat on the horizon, African countries have an opportunity to leverage the existing capacities for Ebola preparedness to brace for the imminent threat. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c07ef0f4d0c048a485e6131e60c4d5022023-09-02T22:38:03ZengF1000 Research LtdAAS Open Research2515-93212020-03-01310.12688/aasopenres.13052.114147Leveraging investments in Ebola preparedness for COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa [version 1; peer review: 3 approved]Rodgers Ayebare0Peter Waitt1Stephen Okello2Mubaraka Kayiira3Maureen Atim Ajok4Irene Nakatudde5Nahid Bhadelia6Mohammed Lamorde7Department of Global Health Security, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Kampala, 000256, UgandaDepartment of Global Health Security, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Kampala, 000256, UgandaMakerere University Walter Reed Porject, Kampala, Kampala, 000256, UgandaDepartment of Global Health Security, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Kampala, 000256, UgandaDepartment of Global Health Security, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Kampala, 000256, UgandaDepartment of Global Health Security, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Kampala, 000256, UgandaEmerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, 02118, USADepartment of Global Health Security, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Kampala, 000256, UgandaThe emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in China and transmission to more than 80 territories worldwide, including nine countries in Africa, presents a delicate situation for low-resource settings. Countries in Eastern and Central Africa have been on high alert since mid-2018 in anticipation of regional spread of the Ebola virus from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Significant investment has been made to support enhanced surveillance at point of entry and hospitals, infection control practices, clinical case management, and clinical research. With a new threat on the horizon, African countries have an opportunity to leverage the existing capacities for Ebola preparedness to brace for the imminent threat.https://aasopenresearch.org/articles/3-3/v1 |
| spellingShingle | Rodgers Ayebare Peter Waitt Stephen Okello Mubaraka Kayiira Maureen Atim Ajok Irene Nakatudde Nahid Bhadelia Mohammed Lamorde Leveraging investments in Ebola preparedness for COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa [version 1; peer review: 3 approved] AAS Open Research |
| title | Leveraging investments in Ebola preparedness for COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa [version 1; peer review: 3 approved] |
| title_full | Leveraging investments in Ebola preparedness for COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa [version 1; peer review: 3 approved] |
| title_fullStr | Leveraging investments in Ebola preparedness for COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa [version 1; peer review: 3 approved] |
| title_full_unstemmed | Leveraging investments in Ebola preparedness for COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa [version 1; peer review: 3 approved] |
| title_short | Leveraging investments in Ebola preparedness for COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa [version 1; peer review: 3 approved] |
| title_sort | leveraging investments in ebola preparedness for covid 19 in sub saharan africa version 1 peer review 3 approved |
| url | https://aasopenresearch.org/articles/3-3/v1 |
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