Towards renewed commitment to prevent maternal mortality and morbidity: learning from 30 years of maternal health priorities

A Solnes Miltenburg, B Kvernflaten… - Sexual and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) created a renewed commitment to improve
maternal health in low-income countries. The estimated number of women worldwide dying …

[PDF][PDF] The centrality of (mis) trust in pandemic preparedness in Sub-Saharan Africa: a conceptual framework

C Grant - J Br Acad, 2023 - thebritishacademy.ac.uk
Trust is central to pandemic preparedness and the degree to which the population has trust
in policymakers and health authorities during an outbreak is based upon historical and …

Global narratives on unequal outcomes produced by lockdown in Africa: A social science perspective on the “one-size-fits all” COVID-19 response

C Grant, K Sams - Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Lockdown measures were introduced worldwide to prevent the spread of
COVID-19, and several studies showed the positive impacts of these policies in places such …

Psychosocial determinants of adherence to public health and social measures (PHSMs) in 18 African Union Member States during the early phase of the COVID-19 …

N Murukutla, AK Gupta, M Maharjan, C Fabrizio… - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective The objective of this study was to gain a better understanding of the psychosocial
and sociodemographic factors that affected adherence to COVID-19 public health and social …

A snapshot of the practicality and barriers to COVID-19 interventions: Public health and healthcare workers' perceptions in high and low-and middle-income countries

R Glazik, H Moore, D Kennedy, H Bower, H Rohan… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have implemented a
range of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) and pharmaceutical interventions (PIs) to …

Contesting the crisis narrative: epidemic accounts in Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Democratic Republic of the Congo

S Lees, L Enria, M James - Disasters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Scientists and global commentators watched African countries closely in the early months of
the COVID‐19 pandemic, predicting an impending disaster: the virus was projected to …

COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: Pandemic preparedness and response

H MacGregor, M Leach, A Desclaux… - How to Live through a …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter analyses narratives about responses to COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa over
the course of 2020, focusing in particular on the emergence of narratives of “success”. It …

Living on the Margins of COVID-19: The Impact on Informal Livelihoods in Masvingo, Zimbabwe

T Karakadzai, M Mardon… - … , Human Welfare, and …, 2022 - Springer
The impact of COVID-19 has been particularly hard for those living and working in slums
and informality—with inadequate dwelling and destruction of livelihoods undermining their …

Social Science Priorities and Response to COVID-19

M Schmidt-Sane, T Hrynick, S Ripoll - … of Social Sciences and Global Public …, 2023 - Springer
Social scientists, depending on the discipline, often work in silos or at more localized levels.
However, as the world collectively experienced seismic shifts during the COVID-19 …

[PDF][PDF] Nandita Murukutla, Ashish K Gupta, 2 Meena Maharjan, 2 Cecilia Fabrizio, Emily W Myers, Andrew Johnson, 3 Virginia Nkwanzi, 4 Colby A Wilkason, 5

N Lacey, A Tshangela, B Djoudalbaye, A McClelland - academia.edu
Objective The objective of this study was to gain a better understanding of the psychosocial
and sociodemographic factors that affected adherence to COVID-19 public health and social …