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| 028 | _b Phone: +255 28 298 3384 | ||
| 028 | _b Fax: +255 28 298 3386 | ||
| 028 | _b Email: vc@bugando.ac.tz | ||
| 028 | _b Website: www.bugando.ac.tz | ||
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| 041 | _aEnglish | ||
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_aSasha Abdallah Fahme _945971 |
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| 245 | _aPractical recommendations for the prevention and management of COVID-19 in low-income and middle-income settings: adapting clinical experience from the field | ||
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_aMwanza, Tanzania: _bBMJ Publishing Group & _b Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences [CUHAS – Bugando] _c2021 |
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| 490 | _vFamily Medicine and Community Health Volume 9 Issue 2 | ||
| 520 | _aIntroduction: Efforts to contain and respond to the novel COVID-19 in both high-income and low-income countries remain extremely challenging. Resource-constrained countries face the additional obstacles of limited health infrastructure and inability to socially distance due to crowded and often multigenerational living conditions. As Western nations begin mass vaccination campaigns, many countries in the Global South may not receive the vaccine for months or years. Until this ‘vaccination gap’ is filled, we must prioritise community-based prevention measures, while continuing to share and learn from each other’s clinical experiences, adapting management approaches to severely resource-limited settings in which vaccination may be delayed. We are global health physicians who have been COVID-19 first responders in hospitals and clinics in both New York City and diverse low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) across Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean. We report our experiences in the field across these various settings with the goal to summarise our practices in the prevention and management of this disease, emphasising evidence-based interventions that can be realistically implemented in LMICs. All efforts should be contextualised to the individual setting, which is partially dependent on the capacity of each country’s health systems. | ||
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_aMargaret McNairy _945972 |
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_a Jennifer A Downs _923034 |
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_aJyoti S Mathad _945935 |
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_a Fouad M Fouad _945973 |
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_a Justin Roy Kingery _945974 |
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_aHyasinta Jaka _919670 |
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_a Puja Chebrolu _945975 |
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_aVanessa Rouzier _945976 |
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_aKathleen F Walsh _945945 |
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| 856 | _uhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8023753/ | ||
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