Sub-Sahara Africa and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Reflecting on Challenges and Recovery Opportunities

Agwanda, Billy; Dagba, Gershon; Opoku, Prince; Amankwa, Mark Opoku; Nyadera, İsrael Nyaburi

doi:10.1177/0169796x211032567

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“…The drive to attain a herd immunity against COVID-19 is an important control measure (Agwanda et al, 2021), although new variants can result in repeat infections. Herd immunity is that situation where at least 70% of the population has acquired an immunity and become resistant to COVID-19, either naturally through recovery from the disease (natural herd immunity) or through the administration of vaccines (artificial herd immunity), is rife in Botswana.…”

Section: Herd Immunitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Sanitize the Man, Sanitize the Car: COVID-19 Disease Control in Botswana

Aiyuk

Molosiwa

2023

Journal of Developing Societies

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COVID-19 has dominated global health since it became a global pandemic in early 2020. It has stressed global health systems and pushed many other health concerns to the back burner. There is an urgent need to look for innovative ways to tackle the pandemic in a sustainable and transferrable manner. This article examines the COVID-19 control measures in Botswana. It describes the innovative government actions taken to control the pandemic. It also presents the observations of the authors, who have observed these actions around the country. They report on the effectiveness of the control cordon belts and the disinfection of people and animals as well as the sanitizing of objects like shoes and cars that pass across the control boundaries. Based upon the effectiveness of the control measures in Botswana, the authors recommend an innovative disease control framework for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases which they contend is replicable in other countries.

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Section: Herd Immunitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Sanitize the Man, Sanitize the Car: COVID-19 Disease Control in Botswana

Aiyuk

Molosiwa

2023

Journal of Developing Societies

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“…Other challenges are technical and capacity elements of testing, treatment, and the development and access to vaccines. 29 Lagos State in central Nigeria was the epicenter of the 2014 Ebola outbreak, as well as the main location for the COVID-19 epidemic. 30 Hence, the emergency preparedness lessons learned from the Ebola outbreak were used to guide COVID-19 from vastly spreading.…”

Section: Global Spread Preparedness and Responsementioning

confidence: 99%

“…48 In SSA, where the poverty rate is high and many people live in overcrowded slums, African cultural norms and daily social life activities hinder the control of Covid-19 in addition to the difficulty in implementing behavioral practices that are required to manage COVID-19, such as maintaining a social distance of at least 1 m and frequent handwashing. 29 Furthermore, government strategies as well as law and order, have been demonstrated in Sweden to have an impact on the spread of the pandemic. 49 An urgent need to guide communities is necessary to recover from this unprecedented outbreak.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Look at COVID-19 Global Health Situation, 1-Year Post Declaration of the Pandemic

Sanyaolu

Marinkovic²,

Prakash³

et al. 2022

Microbiol�Insights

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The new coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO). The impacts of COVID-19 have changed over the past year globally. There were 116 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in more than 220 countries, including 2.5 million deaths, as reported at the end of the first week of March 2021. Throughout this time, different variants of SARS-CoV-2 have emerged. In early March, the United States of America (USA) led in both confirmed cases and casualties, while India followed in the number of confirmed cases and Brazil in the number of deaths. Vaccines are available in the USA and worldwide to help combat COVID-19. The level of preparedness among multisectoral communities played a role in transmission rates; therefore, lessons learned from past outbreaks, alongside this pandemic, are crucial in establishing policies and regulations to reduce and/or prevent the spread. This narrative literature review provides an update on the global spread of the COVID-19 outbreak, and the current impact of the pandemic 1-year after the declaration, preparedness, and mitigation efforts since the outbreak.

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“…Subsequently, African governments must increase the budgetary allocation for employing adequate HCWs and circumvent the issue of human resource shortages. [71]. Early in the pandemic, most African countries relied on molecular testing such as Reverse-Transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) which is slower, and reagents are costly [13].…”

Section: Mwila Et Al (2021) Reported That the Who Assessments Of Resp...mentioning

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Challenges Affecting African Countries in the Fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Interventional Strategies in Low-and Middle-Income Countries

Mudenda¹,

Mwila²,

Hikaambo³

et al. 2022

AID

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused many global challenges, especially in resource-constrained countries. Africa, a continent with a large number of low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), shares this burden disproportionately compared to developed countries. Here we review some of the major challenges African countries face in the fight against COVID-19 and propose some mitigation measures. Studies have reported low adherence to COVID-19 prevention measures in most African countries. Additionally, there has been a shortage of healthcare workers, inadequate surveillance and diagnostic tools, unavailability of drugs in healthcare facilities, increased wrong beliefs, myths, misinformation and misconceptions about COVID-19 and vaccinations, and an already existing burden of infectious and non-infectious diseases across the African continent. Despite being very challenging to implement across African countries, telehealth is a critical solution to offer healthcare services during disease outbreaks. Many African countries have faced challenges in the fight against COVID-19. The training of healthcare workers (HCWs) must be strengthened to help address the shortage.

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Sub-Sahara Africa and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Reflecting on Challenges and Recovery Opportunities

Cited by 12 publications

References 38 publications

Sanitize the Man, Sanitize the Car: COVID-19 Disease Control in Botswana

Sanitize the Man, Sanitize the Car: COVID-19 Disease Control in Botswana

A Look at COVID-19 Global Health Situation, 1-Year Post Declaration of the Pandemic

Challenges Affecting African Countries in the Fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Interventional Strategies in Low-and Middle-Income Countries

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