Impact of the health crisis in the fight against HIV and hepatitis
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To what extent has the current health crisis disrupted the care of patients with HIV-AIDS and hepatitis?
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
51 min
Even if the Covid-19 epidemic, in the past months has had, in terms of mortality, a much more limited impact on the African continent than in other regions of the world, to what extent the current health crisis has Has it upset the management of other pathologies, and in particular, HIV-AIDS and hepatitis?
Can we assess the impact of the pandemic on healthcare and health systems?
Does it partially call into question certain long-standing control programs?
And conversely, has the response against this emerging disease been able to rely on community networks already involved in response strategies to infections present in sub-Saharan Africa, such as HIV, hepatitis, malaria or Ebola ...
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On the occasion of the AFRAVIH conference which will be held between November 8 and 11, the guests of
Priorité santé
, infectious
diseases specialists
and development actors, discuss these questions.
Pr Christine Katlama
, president of
AFRAVIH
, infectious disease
specialist
in the infectious and tropical, clinical and biological pathology
department at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris
Dr Louise Fortés
, from the infectious diseases department at the CHNU de Fann in Dakar
Pr Didier Ekouevi
, epidemiologist,
University of Lomé
, general coordinator of projects and studies of
the African Center for Research in Epidemiology and Public Health
Daouda Diouf
, director of
ENDA Santé
, specialist in community response to HIV
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