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 the COVID-19 pandemic on health service utilisation following self-harm: a systematic review
Sarah Steeg,Ann John,D. Gunnell,Navneet Kapur,Dan Dekel,Loren Schmidt,D. Kniipe,Ella Arensman,Keith Hawton,Jordyn P Higgins,Emily Eyles,C Macleod-Hall,Luke A McGuinness,Roger T. Webb +13 more
TL;DR: Sustained reductions in service utilisation were seen into the first half of 2021, however, evidence from low- and middle-income countries is lacking and the increased use of health services among adolescents, particularly girls, into 2021 is of concern.
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Understanding COVID-19 dynamics and the effects of interventions in the Philippines: A mathematical modelling study
Jaime M. Caldwell,Elvira P. De Lara-Tuprio,Timothy Robin Teng,Maria Regina Justina E. Estuar,Raymond Francis Sarmiento,Milinda Abayawardana,Robert Neil F. Leong,Richard Gray,James G. Wood,Emma S. McBryde,Romain Ragonnet,James M. Trauer +11 more
TL;DR: COVID-19 dynamics in the Philippines are driven by age, contact structure, and mobility, and the epidemic can be understood within a similar framework as for high-income settings.
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“Separated during the first hours”—Postnatal care for women and newborns during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed-methods cross-sectional study from a global online survey of maternal and newborn healthcare providers
Aline Semaan,Teesta Dey,Amani Idris Kikula,Anteneh Asefa,Thérèse Delvaux,Etienne V. Langlois,Thomas van den Akker,Lenka Benova +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors conducted a cross-sectional global online survey of 424 maternal and newborn healthcare providers from 61 countries, to explore PNC provision, availability, content and quality following the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Financing COVID-19 vaccination in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from a nation-wide willingness to pay (WTP) survey in Ghana
TL;DR: In this article , a cross-sectional web-based survey was conducted among adult population aged 18 years and above across the sixteen (16) administrative regions of Ghana, where a sub-sample of 697 participants willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine was used as the unit of analysis.
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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors identify a range of broadly egalitarian considerations that could be affected by the introduction of COVID passport schemes and argue that these schemes could also be used to promote equality.
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