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A review of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on malaria control in Africa

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Infectious Diseases

Abstract

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many scientific and technical institutions globally, resulting in lower productivity in a number of fields and programs. As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads rapidly around the globe, there is an urgent need to aggressively tackle the novel coronavirus while ensuring that other killer diseases, such as malaria, are not neglected. Although many malaria-endemic African nations have shown remarkable resilience and adaptivity in the face of previous global health threats, they nevertheless face the unprecedented challenge of COVID-19 with a comparatively lower health-care system capacity and a higher baseline level of malaria burden. Recognition of the threat posed to malaria control by COVID-19 has been widespread, and there is an urgent need to properly contextualize these threats amid rapidly evolving global health priorities. Doing so will require granular information with which to compare the relative threats posed by the spatially varying deterioration of malaria interventions. In this article, we discuss the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on malaria control in Africa. In this review, different literatures were consulted from Web of Science, Pubmed, AJOL etc., using Google search engine, and findings from these studies were put together in an attempt to provide evidence for a diverse impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on malaria. There is the need to further investigate the public health consequences of COVID 19 pandemic on malaria burden.

DOI

10.21608/mid.2023.231844.1600

Keywords

Epidemiology, SARS-COV2, Disease, subSahara, control

Authors

First Name

Gideon

Last Name

Benjamin

MiddleName

Yakusak

Affiliation

Microbiology Department,Faculty ofNatural and Aplied Sciences, State University of Natural and Applied Sciences, Enugu State, Nigeria

Email

gideon.benjamin@sumas.edu.ng

City

eNUGU

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First Name

Fada

Last Name

Mallam

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of General Studies, Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic Zaria, Nigeria

Email

fadamallam5@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Judith

Last Name

Alhamdu

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department Agricultural Technology, Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria, Nigeria

Email

judithalhamdu@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Sindah

Last Name

Yakubu

MiddleName

Titus

Affiliation

Department Agricultural Technology, Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria, Nigeria

Email

simdahtanko@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Ibrahim

Last Name

Ladan

MiddleName

Aliyu

Affiliation

Department of Biology and Microbiology, Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic Zaria, Nigaria

Email

ibrahimladan007@gmail.com

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-

Orcid

-

Volume

4

Article Issue

4

Related Issue

43799

Issue Date

2023-11-01

Receive Date

2023-08-26

Publish Date

2023-11-01

Page Start

1,081

Page End

1,087

Print ISSN

2682-4132

Online ISSN

2682-4140

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Review Article

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1,160

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Publication Title

Microbes and Infectious Diseases

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https://mid.journals.ekb.eg/

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A review of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on malaria control in Africa

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Created At

25 Dec 2024