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. 2022 Jan 27:376:e068123.
doi: 10.1136/bmj-2021-068123.

Covid-19 as a long multiwave event: implications for responses to safeguard younger generations

Mandeep Dhaliwal  1 , Roy Small  2 , Douglas Webb  2 , Lucie Cluver  3   4 , Mona Ibrahim  3 , Ludo Bok  2 , Collin Nascimento  5 , Cheng Wang  5 , Aidan Garagic  5 , Lars Jensen
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Covid-19 as a long multiwave event: implications for responses to safeguard younger generations

Mandeep Dhaliwal et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Mandeep Dhaliwal and colleagues call for urgent correction of the response to covid-19 to safeguard the development of children and young people

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Effects of layered support for children and young people affected by HIV showing percentage point improvements (with 95% CIs) in percentage probabilities of SDG aligned targets, for adolescents with access to layered safe schools, parenting support, and government cash transfers, compared with no intervention. Each outer circle represents an SDG target within SDGs 3 (health), 4 (education), 5 (gender equality), and 16 (violence prevention). Adapted from Cluver et al
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