African leadership is critical in responding to public health threats

N Ndembi, A Aluso, MK Habtemariam, L Tsague… - nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The African continent demonstrated decisive leadership throughout its response to the
COVID-19 pandemic, leveraging lessons learned from previous outbreaks and acting …

COVID-19 in Africa: the spread and response

M Massinga Loembe, A Tshangela, SJ Salyer… - Nature Medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Given the current trends in incidence and underlying healthcare systems vulnerabilities,
Africa could become the next epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the pandemic …

African responses to COVID-19: the reckoning of agency?

AS Patterson, E Balogun - African Studies Review, 2021 - cambridge.org
Although the COVID-19 pandemic had claimed over one million lives globally by late 2020,
Africa had avoided a massive outbreak. Patterson and Balogun analyze pandemic …

Is Africa prepared for tackling the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic. Lessons from past outbreaks, ongoing pan-African public health efforts, and implications for the …

N Kapata, C Ihekweazu, F Ntoumi, T Raji… - International Journal of …, 2020 - ijidonline.com
Soon after the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (2019-nCoV), was first identified in a cluster
of patients with pneumonia (Li et al., 2020), in the Chinese city of Wuhan on 31 December …

[HTML][HTML] Sub-Saharan Africa preparedness and response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a perspective of early career African scientists

G Umviligihozo, L Mupfumi, N Sonela… - Wellcome open …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Emerging highly transmissible viral infections such as SARS-CoV-2 pose a significant global
threat to human health and the economy. Since its first appearance in December 2019 in the …

Pacing forward in the face of fragility: lessons from african institutions and governments' response to public health emergencies

B Bitanihirwe, D Ssewanyana… - Frontiers in Public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Africa is home to 54 United Nation member states, each possessing a wealth of ethno-
cultural, physiographic, and economic diversity. While Africa is credited as having the …

Framing the future of the COVID-19 response operations in 2022 in the WHO African region

T Balde, B Oyugi, H Karamagi, JC Okeibunor… - Global Health …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background With the evolving epidemiological parameters of COVID-19 in Africa, the
response actions and lessons learnt during the pandemic's past two years, SARS-COV 2 will …

Two years of COVID-19 in Africa: lessons for the world

CT Happi, JN Nkengasong - 2022 - nature.com
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Africa's rapid and coordinated response,
informed by emerging data, was remarkable. Now, in 2022, as vast vaccination campaigns …

Globalisation in the time of COVID-19: repositioning Africa to meet the immediate and remote challenges

S Yaya, A Otu, R Labonté - Globalization and Health, 2020 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a new climate of uncertainty which is fuelling
protectionism and playing into nationalist narratives. Globalisation is under significant threat …

Africa succeeded against COVID-19's first wave, but the second wave brings new challenges

BM Kuehn - Jama, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
(COVID-19) pandemic's first wave. The continent's success can be credited to arapid,
coordinatedresponseamongAfrican leaders, experience with infectious diseases, an …