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The Impacts of Health Crises on Women & Girls: How Historical Evidence Can Inform Assessment and Recovery through a Gender Lens
Megan O'Donnell et al.
April 07, 2021
This paper presents a conceptual framework on the effects of health crises on women and girls with an eye toward understanding the growing evidence base for the COVID-19 pandemic. When health crises like COVID-19 emerge, the simultaneous shocks to economic, social, and health systems can have differ...
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The Indirect Health Effects of COVID-19: Emerging Findings from Kenya, the Philippines, South Africa, and Uganda
Carleigh Krubiner et al.
March 30, 2021
Much of the initial COVID response focused on limiting cases and deaths, without sufficient attention to the broader indirect impacts. A new CGD series investigates.
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Direct and Indirect Health Effects of Lockdown in South Africa
Benjamin Smart et al.
March 30, 2021
This paper investigates both the potential impact of national lockdown measures on COVID-19 transmission, and other health and non-health indicators in South Africa, based on available data. We present findings relating to both “costs” and “benefits” in health terms of the national lockdown side by ...
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Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Services and Mitigation Measures in Uganda
Nazarius Tumwesigye et al.
March 30, 2021
On 21st March 2020, Uganda reported its first COVID-19 case. The government responded by instituting a lockdown and other measures. We assess the effects of the COVID-19 containment measures on health services to better inform the next preventive measures. We use a case study approach that involved ...
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Assessing the Indirect Health Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kenya
Edwine Barasa et al.
March 30, 2021
This paper presents an analysis of the indirect health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya. We employed a mixed-methods approach, combining the analysis of secondary quantitative data obtained from the Kenya Health Information System database (from January 2019 to November 2020) and a qualitat...
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Health Systems Impact of COVID-19 in the Philippines
Diana Beatriz S. Bayani
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Soon Guan Tan
March 30, 2021
This paper presents a preliminary review on the collateral health systems impact of COVID-19 in the Philippines through review of academic and grey literature, supplemented by a qualitative survey.
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How Can We Encourage COVID-19 Vaccine Developers to Expand Manufacturing Capacity?
Burak Kazaz et al.
March 26, 2021
Safe and efficacious vaccines are our best tools for defeating COVID-19. An unprecedented research and development effort has led to 12 vaccines with full or limited use emergency authorizations globally, but vaccinating everyone in the world as quickly as possible will require additional production...