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Angaza COVID-19 Series : Mimétisme Occidentalo-Centré De La Riposte Contre La COVID-19 Au Sud Kivu, RDC

Portant sur le mimétisme occidentalo-centré et ses implications sur les politiques provinciales de la riposte contre la COVID 19 en Milieu rural au Sud Kivu, RDC, cette analyse s’inspire du modèle centre et périphéries, selon lequel, il existe un centre…

Central and East Africa Hub

Angaza Institute

2020

Research paper

Prevention of COVID-19 in Internally Displaced Persons Camps in War-Torn North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Mixed-Methods Study

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic poses a grave threat to refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs). This paper examined knowledge, attitudes, and practices with respect to COVID-19 prevention among IDPs in war-torn Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Central and East Africa Hub

2020

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Angaza COVID-19 Series : Les Masques – Un Danger

Pour lutter contre la pandémie de Covid-19, le port de masques a été vivement recommandé, pendant des sorties en public, pour réduire la chaîne de contamination. Des populations sous informées sur l’usage responsable des masques s’exposent et exposent leur environnement…

Central and East Africa Hub

Angaza Institute

2020

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Angaza COVID-19 Series : Quand La Communication Renforce Le Déni En République Démocratique Du Congo

Le Covid-19 est une maladie dangereuse. Mais la communication au sujet du Covid-19 peut être plus dangereuse si elle n’est pas cohérente. Une communication peut provoquer une multitude de réactions et créer un impact négatif/positif sur l’acceptation de la maladie…

Central and East Africa Hub

Angaza Institute

2020

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A Qualitative Evaluation of COVID-19 Preventative Response Activities in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Objective: In this evaluation of COVID-19 preventative response programs in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), we aimed to explore community understandings of COVID-19, assess operational successes and challenges of COVID response activities, and identify barriers to practicing…

Central and East Africa Hub

MDPI

2022

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Crisis responses, opportunity, and public authority during Covid-19’s first wave in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan

Discussions on African responses to Covid-19 have focused on the state and its international backers. Far less is known about a wider range of public authorities, including chiefs, humanitarians, criminal gangs, and armed groups. This paper investigates how the pandemic…

Central and East Africa Hub

Wiley Online Library

2021

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SSHAP brief on vaccine distrust wins the 2022 ARHE Policy Brief Award

27th October 2022

A SSHAP brief on COVID-19 vaccines and (dis)trust among youth in Ealing, London by Megan Schmidt-Sane, Tabitha Hrynick, Jillian Schulte, Charlie Forgacz-Cooper and Santiago Ripoll has won the 2022 ARHE Policy Brief Award.

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Local governments can make or break vaccination programmes in multicultural urban contexts

In this blog, Santiago Ripoll, Tabitha Hrynick, Megan Schmidt-Sane and Ashley Ouvrier summarise the key messages of a recent briefing on how local governments in multicultural urban neighbourhoods can support vaccine equity in pandemics.

Santiago Ripoll, Tabitha Hrynick, Megan Schmidt-Sane, Ashley Ouvrier

10 Oct 2022

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Building community relationships to promote vaccine equity

In this blog, Santiago Ripoll, Tabitha Hrynick, Megan Schmidt-Sane and Ashley Ouvrier reflect on the importance of relationships with communities when implementing public health interventions, based on their research on COVID-19 responses in Ealing and Marseille.

Santiago Ripoll, Tabitha Hrynick, Megan Schmidt-Sane, Ashley Ouvrier

5 Oct 2022

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Learning in a pandemic: real-time research on COVID-19 in rural Zimbabwe

In this blog, Ian Scoones reflects on the real-time research that happened in Zimbabwe during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ian Scoones

3 Oct 2022

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Integrating COVID-19 Vaccination Services: Insights from Iraq and Syria for the MENA Region

This brief draws on evidence from academic and grey literature and consultations with partners working in the COVID-19 response to review current integration efforts (as of August 2022) and explore potentially effective ways to integrate COVID-19 vaccination into other services…

SSHAP

2022