Governance structures that provide opportunities for people to contribute to decision-making would also enhance people’s abilities to control important factors in their life.
When some stockpile valuable resources to the detriment of others, everyone loses.
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The effectiveness of vaccination as a public health strategy will continue to be compromised while large numbers of the global community remain unvaccinated.
Over 40% of the countries on the UK’s COVID-19 ‘red list’ are in sub-Sahara Africa.
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The core of the objections, whether they are about vaccinations, lockdowns, social distancing, or mask wearing, seems to concern an apparent erosion of personal liberty.
A refugee receives his first dose of coronavirus vaccine in Kigali, Rwanda.
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Due to early logistical planning, Rwanda had the capacity to store 5 million doses before the vaccines arrived.
The increasingly well-coordinated global anti-vaccine movement has repurposed itself to challenge the very reality of COVID-19.
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A safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine is expected to be developed in record time and may be approved for production, distribution and acceptance some time in 2021.
Health providers need to practise in error-proof environments as much as possible.
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The most sustainable and cost-effective solution for protecting patients’ lives is to reduce the causes of human error. Health professionals must be adequately trained to reduce adverse outcomes.
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With the dawn of colonialism, nursing and midwifery were formally established and, in many colonies, recognised as the first modern clinical profession on the African continent.
To contain COVID-19, African countries cannot rely just on doctors and nurses, who are already in short supply and at high risk of infection in the workplace.
The links between people, animals and the environment call for a new approach to health.
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The interdependency between humans, animals and the environment is becoming more pronounced. This calls for an interdisciplinary approach to health problems.
Rwanda’s vaccination programme for girls against HPV, the most common sexually transmitted disease was a huge success, thanks to implementation science.