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Pan Afr Med J 2020 21;35(Suppl 2):86. Epub 2020 Jun 21.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Health Systems Research & Development, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

COVID-19 Pandemic has the potential to overwhelm the underserved health care systems of African countries characterized by inadequate infrastructure and too few medical personnel. In responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic, many African countries are using a combination of containment and mitigation activities but in this commentary, we focus on what we term the Non-SHEF2 (S: Social distancing, H: Hands, E: Elbows, F: Face, F: Feel) model related control and containment measures which include seven key measures against COVID-19 doped 'TITHQC2' namely, T: Travel-related measures, I: Information and guidance, T: Treatment; H: Hospital containment measures; Q: Quarantine, C: Community containment measures, C: Case detection and contact tracing. COVID-19 is a reality and demands rapid and decisive action to be taken. Read More

Pan Afr Med J 2020 7;35(Suppl 2):25. Epub 2020 May 7.

Department of Population and Behevioural Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana.

The Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was detected in December 2019 in the Hubei Province of China. Also known as COVID-19, the outbreak was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), which is the region hardest hit by HIV, is also highly affected by COVID-19. Read More

Healthc (Amst) 2020 Oct 22;9(2):100487. Epub 2020 Oct 22.

École de Santé Publique de l'Université de Montréal (ESPUM), Canada; Centre de Recherche en Santé Publique, Université de Montréal (CReSP), Canada; School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Bellville South Africa, South Africa.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has emerged as a serious threat to global public health, demanding urgent action and causing unprecedented worldwide change in a short space of time. This disease has devastated economies, infringed on individual freedoms, and taken an unprecedented toll on healthcare systems worldwide. As of 1 April 2020, over a million cases of COVID-19 have been reported in 204 countries and territories, resulting in more than 51,000 deaths. Read More

Neuroimage 2021 Feb 11:117848. Epub 2021 Feb 11.

Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Sensorimotor alpha suppression is present both during the observation and execution of actions, and is a commonly used tool to investigate neural mirroring in infancy. Köster et al. (2020) used this measure to investigate infants' motor cortex activation during the observation of action demonstrations and its relationship to subsequent imitation of these actions. Read More