COVID-19 and indirect health implications in Africa: Impact, mitigation measures, and lessons learned for improved disease control

PLoS Med. 2021 Jun 23;18(6):e1003666. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003666. eCollection 2021 Jun.

Authors

Seth C Inzaule¹, Pascale Ondoa², Marguerite Massinga Loembe¹, Yenew Kebede Tebeje¹, Ahmed E Ogwell Ouma¹, John N Nkengasong¹

Affiliations

¹ Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
² African Society for Laboratory Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Abstract

Seth Inzaule and co-authors discuss implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for health in African countries.

MeSH terms

Africa / epidemiology
COVID-19 / ethnology*
COVID-19 / prevention & control*
Communicable Disease Control / methods*
Humans
Pandemics*

Grants and funding

The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.