MEDIA ADVISORY New Report: Responding to COVID-19 in Africa – AfricaBusiness com africabusiness.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from africabusiness.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Acknowledgments: We thank all health care workers, Slovak armed forces, and countless volunteers who helped with the execution of the mass testing campaign. Further, we thank all participants who contributed their time to help curb the pandemic and particularly those who had to quarantine as a result of their or their household’s or contact’s test result.
Funding: This work was supported by a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship jointly funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society 208812/Z/17/Z (to S.Fl.); Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship (to S.Fu., S.A., and K.S.); and Elrha’s Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) Programme funded by the UK Government (DFID), the Wellcome Trust, and the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) (K.V.-Z.). The following funding sources are acknowledged as providing funding for the working group authors: BBSRC LIDP BB/M009513/1 (to D.S.); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation INV-001754 (to M.Q.); INV-003174 (to K.P., M.J., an
UK-PHRST Research Fellow in Mental Health
The UK-Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) is co-led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Public Health England (PHE), funded by UK government Overseas Development Aid with a triple remit of response, research and capacity development for outbreaks in low and middle income countries.
The main purpose of the post is to support the implementation and continued development of the UK-PHRST’s emerging mental health programme. To do this, the post holder will work with UK-PHRST colleagues, the Centre for Global Mental Health at LSHTM, and colleagues in Global Mental Health at Public Health England.
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The third survey by the Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (PERC) has established that 80 per cent of Ghanaians are satisfied with the government s COVID-19 pandemic response.
The survey suggested that the country was above the regional average of 78 per cent although it had dropped by six percentage points as recorded by the second survey conducted in August 2020.
The report, however, revealed that income loss and problems with food access were severe in almost all African Union (AU) member states and had largely worsened since August.
“Income loss and food access are severe, and about 77 per cent of households have lost all or some of their income since the beginning of the pandemic (62 per cent some, 15 per cent all) on the continent,” the Public Affairs Director for sub-Saharan Africa of IPSOS, Virginia Nkwanzi Isingoma, said.
Dr Da Costa delivers report on covid-19 response in Africa modernghana.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from modernghana.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.