Addressing COVID-19 in Afghanistan: What are the efforts and challenges?

doi:10.7189/jogh.10.020341

. 2020 Dec;10(2):020341.

doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.020341.

Addressing COVID-19 in Afghanistan: What are the efforts and challenges?

Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno 3rd¹, Attaullah Ahmadi², Mohammad Yasir Essar², Xu Lin³, Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi⁴

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¹ Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.
² Kabul University of Medical Sciences, Kabul, Afghanistan.
³ Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, PR China.
⁴ Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

PMID: 33110541
PMCID: PMC7568006
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.10.020341

Addressing COVID-19 in Afghanistan: What are the efforts and challenges?

Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno 3rd et al. J Glob Health. 2020 Dec.

. 2020 Dec;10(2):020341.

doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.020341.

Authors

Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno 3rd¹, Attaullah Ahmadi², Mohammad Yasir Essar², Xu Lin³, Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.
² Kabul University of Medical Sciences, Kabul, Afghanistan.
³ Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, PR China.
⁴ Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

PMID: 33110541
PMCID: PMC7568006
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.10.020341

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Competing interests: The authors have completed the ICMJE Unified Competing Interest form (available upon request from the corresponding author) and declare no conflicts of interest.

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[1] Lucero-Prisno DE, Adebisi YA, Lin X.Current efforts and challenges facing responses to 2019-nCoV in Africa. Glob Health Res Policy. 2020;5:21. 10.1186/s41256-020-00148-1 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[2] Lucero-Prisno DE, Adebisi YA, Lin X.Current efforts and challenges facing responses to 2019-nCoV in Africa. Glob Health Res Policy. 2020;5:21. 10.1186/s41256-020-00148-1 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[3] Shah J, Karimzadeh S, Al-Ahdal TMA, Mousavi SH, Zahid SU, Huy NT.COVID-19: the current situation in Afghanistan. Lancet Glob Health. 2020;8:e771-e772. 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30124-8 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[4] Shah J, Karimzadeh S, Al-Ahdal TMA, Mousavi SH, Zahid SU, Huy NT.COVID-19: the current situation in Afghanistan. Lancet Glob Health. 2020;8:e771-e772. 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30124-8 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[5] Kickbusch I, Leung GM, Bhutta ZA, Matsoso MP, Ihekweazu C, Abbassi K.COVID-19: How a virus is turning the world upside down. BMJ. 2020;369:m1336. 10.1136/bmj.m1336 - DOI - PubMed

[6] Kickbusch I, Leung GM, Bhutta ZA, Matsoso MP, Ihekweazu C, Abbassi K.COVID-19: How a virus is turning the world upside down. BMJ. 2020;369:m1336. 10.1136/bmj.m1336 - DOI - PubMed

[7] World Health Organization. Afghanistan Brief: COVID-19, No 52. Available: https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/sites/www.humanitarianresponse.inf... Accessed: 11 June 2020.

[8] World Health Organization. Afghanistan Brief: COVID-19, No 52. Available: https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/sites/www.humanitarianresponse.inf... Accessed: 11 June 2020.

[9] U.S Embassy in Afghanistan Available: https://af.usembassy.gov/covid-19- information/. Accessed: 11 June 2020.

[10] U.S Embassy in Afghanistan Available: https://af.usembassy.gov/covid-19- information/. Accessed: 11 June 2020.

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