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Proceedings, Volume 45, Issue 1

Getafrica 2019 2020 - 15 articles

The 5th African Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases

Abuja, Nigeria | 7–9 August 2019

Volume Editor: Alan Christoffels, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Cover Story: The Global Emerging Pathogen Treatment Consortium organized the 5th African conference on emerging infectious diseases and biosecurity in Abuja, Nigeria from 7–9 August 2019. The conference was an academic and policy-based meeting that addressed the response mechanism to biological threats and increasing incidences of emerging infectious diseases from a continental perspective. The conference confers with the Biological Weapons Convention, United Nations, 1540 Security Council Resolutions, (IHR and PVS).
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Articles (15)

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Background: Malaria is invariably one of the most perplexing problems of public health importance all over the world affecting mainly tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. The study determined the influence of environmental conditions on ma...

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The impacts of climate change on livelihood and natural ecosystems have made it imperative to support health leadership in Africa to integrate health into national climate change planning. This paper analyses Rabies as a pressing issue for developing...

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Pandemic Influenza Preparedness in Africa

  • Evanson Z. Sambala,
  • Tiwonge Kanyenda,
  • Chinwe Juliana Iwu,
  • Chidozie Declan Iwu,
  • Anelisa Jaca and
  • Charles S. Wiysonge

Background: Prior to the 2009 pandemic H1N1, and the unprecedented outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) caused by the H5N1 virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) called upon its Member States to develop preparedness plans in respo...

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Globally, concerns over information security vulnerabilities are growing exponentially, fuelled by several headline reports of data breach incidents, which increase in size with each occurrence. On the Africa continent, South Africa is ranked among t...

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Challenges of Recruiting and Retaining African Women in HIV Vaccine Clinical Trials

  • Babatunde Adewale,
  • Chiamaka Uwalaka,
  • Olalekan Rahman and
  • Aisha Gambari

One of the most urgent global public health needs is the development of a safe, effective, and accessible HIV vaccine. The ethical imperative demands that the situation of those people and population most vulnerable to exposure of HIV infection be ad...

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