Clinical Infectious Diseases: COVID-19 and Pregnancy Outcomes in Africa
We're pleased to share AFREHealth's publications on COVID-19 and Pregnancy in 6 African Countries and accompanying commentary that have just been e-published (ahead of print) under open access at the Clinical Infectious Diseases Journal website: https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-articles
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection and Pregnancy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A 6-Country Retrospective Cohort Analysis | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic (oup.com)
Prioritizing Pregnant Women for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination in African Countries | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic (oup.com)
Mozambique confirms wild poliovirus case
News release:18 May 2022: Brazzaville/Maputo – Health authorities in Mozambique today declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after confirming that a child in the country’s north-eastern Tete province had contracted the disease. This marks the second imported case of wild poliovirus in southern Africa this year, following an outbreak in Malawi in mid-February.
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Now available & Open Access! The PIDJ Supplement - Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention and Control in Low-and Middle-income Countries
WSPID is excited to announce that this Open Access supplement is now available on the PIDJ website. The supplement is the result of a successful global Peds ID collaboration, which started during a meeting at WSPID2019 in Manila. Many thanks to the supplement leads Mark Cotton, Mike Sharland, Susan Coffin and Penelope Bryant for their hard work and perseverance. WSPID is also extremely grateful to the supplement leads, Angela Dramowski and their institutions for their financial contribution enabling the supplement to be Open Access.
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