The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unique risks to people with Alzheimer disease and dementia. Research from 2020 has shown that these people have a relatively high risk of contracting severe COVID-19, and are also at risk of neuropsychiatric disturbances a
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has threatened global mental health, both indirectly via disruptive societal changes and directly via neuropsychiatric sequelae after SARS-CoV-2 infection. Despite a small increase in self-reported mental
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted multiple health services, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing, care, and treatment services, jeopardizing the achievement of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS 90-90-90 global target. While there are limited...
Relying on the theoretical frameworks of cultural racism and postcolonialism, the article interrogates what happened with Africa's policy response and attempts to find a home-grown remedy to the global COVID-19 pandemic as reflections of the underlying patterns of relationalities that determine the ...
In terms of impact to social services and economy, COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all sectors negatively [20,21]. All countries have been affected regardless of the level of development. However, the effects have been more serious for the least developed countries where most of the African cou...
COVID-19 Pandemic Midwives Birth Focusing event 1. Introduction COVID-19 has placed unprecedented financial and clinical stress on health care systems across the globe (Sohrabi et al., 2020), and this stress is altering and/or disrupting various types of routine care, including prenatal, labor,...
COVID-19 pandemicHUMAN beingsPANDEMICSDESPAIRSUFFERINGCOVID-19In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, where death, sickness and suffering persist, there is some hint that there is nothing so special about the human race that particularly makes it immune to decimation. This is at odds with ...
The vertical red bar shows the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.) Table 1. Examples of other legislative acts approved during the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Heading into the third year of the pandemic, billions worldwide still don't have access to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, continuing to suffer even as pharmaceutical companies reach record profits, said the article, noting that globally, less-wealthy nations have been abandoned to "vaccine a...
As such, we first focused only on the beginning of the pandemic because that is the time period that was least affected by interventions to curb the spread of COVID-19, which would disrupt the social networks and socioeconomic connections that relate COVID-19 transmission rates to city size....