Forced migration as a risk factor for COVID-19 infection in Africa: insight from Agadez, Niger
Pan Afr Med J
.
2021 Oct 13:40:97.
doi: 10.11604/pamj.2021.40.97.28116.
eCollection 2021.
Authors
Aboubacar Abdou Batoure
1
,
Oumarou Batoure
1
,
Blanche-Philomene Melanga Anya
1
,
Didier Tambwe
1
,
Bienvenu Baruani
1
,
Ishag El Khalef
1
,
Joseph Nsiari-Muzeyi Biey
2
,
Patrick Katoto
3
4
5
,
Charles Shey Wiysonge
5
6
7
Affiliations
1
World Health Organization, Niamey, Niger.
2
World Health Organization, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
3
Centre for Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
4
Centre for Tropical Diseases and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo.
5
Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
6
Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa.
7
School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
PMID:
34909085
PMCID:
PMC8607946
DOI:
10.11604/pamj.2021.40.97.28116
No abstract available
Keywords:
SARS-COV-2; humanitarian crisis; migrants; mobility.
Publication types
Letter
MeSH terms
Africa
COVID-19*
Humans
Niger / epidemiology
Risk Factors
SARS-CoV-2
Grants and funding
001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International