Ebola, COVID‐19 and Africa: What we expected and what we got

Ebola, COVID‐19 and Africa: What we expected and what we got

Democratic Republic of the Congo’s fight with Ebola was just settling when WHO declared COVID‐19 to be a global pandemic on March 12, 2020. This has caused concomitant setbacks in the treatment and control of major health issues like HIV, tuberculosis, measles, and malaria in the country. This, coup...

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Veröffentlicht in:Developing world bioethics 2021-03, Vol.21 (1), p.51-54
Hauptverfasser: Sasidharan, Shibu, Dhillon, Harpreet Singh
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Armed Conflicts - ethnology
Bioethics
Civil Disorders - ethnology
Communicable Diseases - epidemiology
Country Report
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
Democratic Republic of the Congo - epidemiology
Disease Outbreaks
Ebola
Ebola virus
Ebolavirus
Health Personnel
Health Workforce
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - epidemiology
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
human rights
Humans
Malaria
Measles
Medical personnel
Medical treatment
military medicine
Pandemics
Peacekeeping forces
Poverty - ethnology
Public Health
Setbacks
Social unrest
Tuberculosis
Vector-borne diseases
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Zusammenfassung:Democratic Republic of the Congo’s fight with Ebola was just settling when WHO declared COVID‐19 to be a global pandemic on March 12, 2020. This has caused concomitant setbacks in the treatment and control of major health issues like HIV, tuberculosis, measles, and malaria in the country. This, coupled with civil unrest and risk to the safety of the health workers, is a 'perfect storm' waiting to unfold. Military contingents as peacekeepers are having the most difficult time, handling the situation, in the wake of risks involved.
ISSN:1471-8731
1471-8847
DOI:10.1111/dewb.12292