Urgent needs of low-income and middle-income countries for COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics
J. Peter Figueroa,Maria Elena Bottazzi,Peter J. Hotez,Carolina Batista,Onder Ergonul,Sarah C. Gilbert,Mayda Gursel,Mazen Hassanain,Jerome H. Kim,Bhavna Lall,Heidi J. Larson,Denise Naniche,Timothy P. Sheahan,Shmuel Shoham,Annelies Wilder-Smith,Natalie Strub-Wourgaft,Prashant Yadav,Gagandeep Kang +17 more
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The COVAX Facility of the ACT Accelerator has agreements to access 2 billion doses of WHO prequalified vaccines during 2021, but this represents only 20% of the vaccine needs of participating countries Most low-income and middle-income countries face difficulties in accessing and delivering vaccines and therapeutics for COVID-19 to their populations.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2021-02-13 and is currently open access. It has received 98 citations till now.read more
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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Working Equid Community: Responses from 1530 Individuals Accessing NGO Support in 14 Low- and Middle-Income Countries
TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-sectional study investigated the effects of COVID-19 on working equid communities, with the intention of developing methods for replication in future unprecedented events.
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Suicide and self-harm in low- and middle- income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review
Duleeka Kniipe,Duleeka Kniipe,Ann John,Prianka Padmanathan,Emily Eyles,Dana Dekel,Julian P T Higgins,Julian P T Higgins,Jason Bantjes,Rakhi Dandona,Rakhi Dandona,Catherine Macleod-Hall,Luke A McGuinness,Lena Schmidt,Roger T. Webb,Roger T. Webb,David Gunnell,David Gunnell +17 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesized the evidence from the published literature on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide and self-harm in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) where the burden of these behaviours is greatest.
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Free licensing of vaccines to end the COVID-19 crisis.
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Bovine lactoferrin for the prevention of COVID-19 infection in health care personnel: a double-blinded randomized clinical trial (LF-COVID)
Rafael Gómez Navarro,Jose Luis Paredes,Lourdes Tucto,Carlos Medina,Eddie Angles-Yanqui,Juan Carlos Nario,Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos,Juan Luis Quintana,Kevin Turpo-Espinoza,Fernando Mejía-Cordero,Meylin Aphang-Lam,Jorge Florez,Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar,Theresa J. Ochoa +13 more
TL;DR: A randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial was conducted in two tertiary hospitals that provide care to patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in Peru as mentioned in this paper .
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Monitoring global trends in Covid-19 vaccination intention and confidence: a social media-based deep learning study
Xinyu Zhou,Alex de Figueiredo,Qin Xu,Leesa Lin,Per Egil Kummervold,Heidi J. Larson,Mark Jit,Zhiyuan Hou +7 more
TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors developed deep learning models to monitor global intention and confidence of Covid-19 vaccination in real time, which can be used to monitor Covid19 vaccination beliefs using social media data in real-time.
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