Mitigating lockdown challenges in response to COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa

Leonard E G Mboera; George O Akipede; Amitava Banerjee; Luis E Cuevas; Thomas Czypionka; Mishal Khan; Richard Kock; David McCoy; Blandina T Mmbaga; Gerald Misinzo; Elizabeth H Shayo; Meru Sheel; Calvin Sindato; Mark Urassa

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2020.05.018

Mitigating lockdown challenges in response to COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa

Int J Infect Dis. 2020 Jul:96:308-310. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.05.018. Epub 2020 May 11.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ SACIDS Foundation for One Health, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania. Electronic address: lmboera@gmail.com.
² College of Medicine, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria; Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria. Electronic address: georgeakpede@yahoo.co.uk.
³ Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: ami.banerjee@ucl.ac.uk.
⁴ Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom. Electronic address: Luis.Cuevas@lstmed.ac.uk.
⁵ Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria; London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: czypionk@ihs.ac.at.
⁶ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: Mishal.Khan@lshtm.ac.uk.
⁷ Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: rkock@rvc.ac.uk.
⁸ Institute of Population Health Sciences, Barts and London Medical and Dental School, Queen Mary University London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: d.mccoy@qmul.ac.uk.
⁹ Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College and Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute, Moshi, Tanzania. Electronic address: blaymt@yahoo.com.
¹⁰ SACIDS Foundation for One Health, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania; Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania. Electronic address: gmisinzo@gmail.com.
¹¹ National Institute for Medical Research, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Electronic address: bshayo@yahoo.com.
¹² National Centre for Epidemiology and Population, ANU College of Health and Medicine, Australia National University, Canberra, Australia. Electronic address: meru.sheel@anu.edu.au.
¹³ SACIDS Foundation for One Health, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania; National Institute for Medical Research, Tabora, Tanzania. Electronic address: csindato@gmail.com.
¹⁴ National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania. Electronic address: urassamark@yahoo.co.uk.

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