Browsing by Author "Rackimuthu, Sudhan"

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    COVID-19, measles, and yellow fever: The need to reinforce vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo
    (Elsevier, 2022-01) Rackimuthu, Sudhan; Hunain, Reem; Uday, Utkarsha; Okonji, Osaretin Christabel
    The immunization programs have been jeopardized all over the world due to the stay-at-home constraints imposed, to mitigate the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This has directly or indirectly placed the global health care system in peril, resulting in an overlapping public health crisis. With this commentary, we aim to accentuate the need to reinforce vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in lieu of the intersecting COVID-19, measles, and yellow fever outbreak, besides, providing recommendations so as to help alleviate the situation.
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    Strategies for malaria vaccination during the Covid-19 pandemic in African countries
    (World Health Organization, 2022) Narain, Kapil; Rackimuthu, Sudhan; Okonji, Osaretin Christabel
    Since October 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the use of RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine for children in areas of moderate to high transmission of Plasmodium falciparum in Africa.1 The vaccine can reduce the 241 million cases of malaria and 627 000 malaria deaths worldwide;2,3 it is much needed in the WHO African Region, which accounts for 228 million cases of malaria (95% of global cases) and about 96% of global malaria deaths.2 However, an effective vaccine roll-out in Africa can only be achieved when region-specific challenges can be overcome; intraregional inequality, health-care systems strengthening and lessons from community engagement in previous public health crises.