Neglected Diseases Kill More People than COVID-19 – It’s Time to Address Them
Credit: UNBy Ifeanyi Nsofor and Adaeze OrehABUJA, Mar 30 2020 (IPS) As COVID-19 surges globally and leaves fear and panic in its wake, global efforts are underway to find a cure. Yet, the same level of response is lacking for several other infectious diseases that kill millions annually. These kinds of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a broad group of communicable diseases which affect more than two billion people and cost developing economies billions of dollars every year.
Lassa Fever is an example and is endemic in Nigeria and other West African countries such as Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali and Sierra ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ifeanyi Nsofor and Adaeze Oreh Tags: Global Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Source Type: news
Africa: Fill the Gaps, Feel the Pain: Insights from Sierra Leone on an Epidemic's Impact on Local Taxation, Public Services, and the Poor
[African Arguments] What can we learn from Ebola about the potential impacts of COVID-19? (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 30, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
What the Ebola outbreak could teach us about how to contain the novel coronavirus
A new research paper examining the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak in Africa could hold crucial insights for policymakers grappling with the novel coronavirus pandemic — namely, the importance of public engagement and trust during health crises.Thestudy (PDF), co-authored by Darin Christensen, assistant professor of public policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, shows that where people lack confidence in their health providers, they are less likely to seek testing and treatment when they feel sick. This stymies efforts to identify, treat and isolate infected patients to limit further contagion.By the end of the Ebola ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - March 27, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
A Gender Lens on COVID-19
This article was originally published on March 25, 2020 by the Center for Global Development. The original post can be found here. (Source: IntraHealth International)
Source: IntraHealth International - March 25, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: COVID-19 Gender Equality Nursing & Midwifery 2020 Midwives Nurses Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: Govt Declares Emergency Despite Not Recording COVID-19 Cases
[Nation] Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio on Tuesday declared a state of public emergency in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic despite not recording any cases. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 25, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: Kenya Airways Plane Lands in Sierra Leone, Panic Ensues
[East African] There was confusion at Sierra Leone's Lungi International Airport on Wednesday after a Kenya Airways (KQ) flight carrying a suspected coronavirus case landed. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 19, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
West Africa: Ebola-Hit West African Nations On Alert Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
[DW] Memories of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are still fresh in the minds of survivors, as concern mounts over a potential coronavirus outbreak. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 19, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gender “ Could be Coronavirus Key ”
By External SourceMar 17 2020 (IPS) Analysing how coronavirus impacts genders differently could be key in fighting the disease, say public health experts.
Women are on the coronavirus frontlines as healthcare workers, primary caregivers and migrant workers, but policy responses often fail to consider how gender and epidemics interact.
The Ebola and Zika outbreaks underline the urgent need for gendered analyses, says Clare Wenham, assistant professor in global health policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Globally, women make up about 70 per cent of the health workforce and are primarily responsible...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 17, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Gender Global Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations Coronavirus Source Type: news
Africa: Coronavirus - the Lessons From One Deadly Virus to Another
[DW] As COVID-19 cuts a wide swathe of panic, the experts who beat Ebola in West Africa are looking on, knowingly. China and Italy are to the pandemic what Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia were to the epidemic of 2014 - 2016. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 14, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
What Ebola taught me about coronavirus: panic will get us nowhere
We must take care, but not lose sight of the bigger picture. Fixating on the virus means we often ignore wider social and economic prioritiesCoronavirus has become inescapable, with more than 100,000 confirmed cases and almost 4,000 deaths globally to date. Even for those of us who have not had direct contact with the virus, it has our attention. It dominates the news and our conversations. Livelihoods, healthcare, travel, and social life are being impacted in ways that are difficult to quantify.As the virus – and the associated fear – spreads, containment controls, and their consequences, are likely to become more sev...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 11, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Jonah Lipton Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Infectious diseases Medical research Science Ebola Sierra Leone Africa Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: Improving National and District Capacity to Tackle Maternal Mortality
[WHO] Maternal mortality remains a major concern in Sierra Leone. Recent statistics show that maternal mortality accounts for 36 percent of all deaths among women age 15-49 in the country. This makes Sierra Leone one of the countries in the world with the highest life-time risk of women dying at pregnancy or childbirth. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - March 4, 2020 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: 2030 malaria goa l- One million under five children get malaria yearly
[Concord] Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr the mayor of Freetown City has said that in Sierra Leone, 2.24 million people will be at an outpatient department all over the country for malaria treatment every year. 'Out of this' she added 'one million of them will be under the age of 5'. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - March 3, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: Govt is Using Lessons From Ebola to Prepare for Coronavirus
[The Conversation Africa] The outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, started at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, China. It is spreading rapidly around the world and countries face many challenges in preventing and managing the spread of a new virus within and across borders. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 29, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
West Africa: Sierra Leone Dragged Before Ecowas Court Over Missing Ebola Virus Funds
[This Day] The Sierra Leonian government has been dragged before the ECOWAS Community Court in Abuja over allegation it mismanaged millions of United States Dollars donated to fight the deadly Ebola virus, which killed about 4,000 people the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 7, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Nigeria, 5 Other African Countries Can Diagnose Coronavirus - WHO
[Vanguard] There are currently six laboratories in Africa with capacity to diagnose the novel coronavirus. The laboratories are in Nigeria, Ghana, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Senegal, and South Africa. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
