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Coronavirus (1486) UN: Millions of children deprived of life-saving vaccinations amid COVID pandemic, misinformation surge UN News release, 20 April 2023. Extracts below. Read online: https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/04/1135797 -- Some 67 million children worldwide missed out on one or more essential vaccinations between 2019 and 2021, due to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and armed conflict, but also decreasing confidence in vaccines, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday. |
21 April, 2023 |
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Coronavirus (1485) The impact of COVID-19 on global health journals: an analysis of impact factor and publication trends Dear colleagues, The COVID has extensive impact on our society, including academic publications. Our team just published the article "The impact of COVID-19 on global health journals: an analysis of impact factor and publication trends" in BMJ Global Health. You mignt be interested in the research findings. You can have access to the details via the link here. [ https://gh.bmj.com/content/8/4/e011514.info ] Thanks. Best regards |
9 April, 2023 |
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Coronavirus (1484) Physician Poll: Medical Misinformation is Harming Patients Below is an extract of a new article on the de Baeumont website. Read online: https://debeaumont.org/news/2023/physician-poll-medical-misinformation-i... -- Physician Poll: Medical Misinformation is Harming Patients March 29, 2023 |
31 March, 2023 |
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Coronavirus (1483) BBC FUTURE article: "The long shadow of Covid-19 myths" Dear Neil, HIFA colleagues with an interest in COVID-19 and misinformation may be interested in reading this article from the BBC News site by Jacob Kushner and Kang-Chun Cheng entitled "The long shadow of Covid-19 myths": https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230328-the-long-shadow-of-covid-19-... |
30 March, 2023 |
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Coronavirus (1482) Health worker education during the COVID-19 pandemic Citation and abstract of a new paper in the journal Human Resources for Health. The impact on mental health appears to be huge. How are young trainees fairing now? |
1 March, 2023 |
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Coronavirus (1481) Webinar: Launch of Special Issue on COVID-19 and inequality, 14 February 2023 PAHO/WHO Equity, Health and Human Development - Lista Equidad Sharing information since 2000 Launch of Special Issue on COVID-19 and inequality (Webinar) Organizer: World Health Organization When/Cuándo: 14 February 2023, 1:00pm - 2:30pm CET |
13 February, 2023 |
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Coronavirus (1480) Nigeria Health Watch: Public Health Communication During a Health Emergency: What We Have Learned Extracts from a lead article on Nigeria Health Watch. Read online: https://articles.nigeriahealthwatch.com/public-health-communication-duri... "We've learned collectively that transparency, openness, and the communication of credible information to people in real-time results in functional responses by people"- Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director of WHO Health Emergencies Programme |
11 February, 2023 |
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Coronavirus (1479) Breakthrough ACTION and COVID-19 in Nigeria Health workers are trusted sources of information on COVID-19 and vacciness, but reported that they lacked such information themselves. Extracts from a blog from the NGO Breakthrough ACTION. https://breakthroughactionandresearch.org/building-empathy-and-trust-aro... |
6 February, 2023 |
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Coronavirus (1478) COVID-19 pandemic shines a spotlight on the vital role of social media and its influencers Greetings all. Finally, an article on social media and the COVID-19 pandemic that is not all about the ‘m-word’ (misinformation)! COVID-19 pandemic shines a spotlight on the vital role of social media and its influencers https://socmedawards.com/2023/post/5/covid-19-pandemic-shines-a-spotligh... Here is a snippet… |
31 January, 2023 |
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Coronavirus (1477) Morgue Data Reveal Africa’s High COVID-19 Death Toll Dear HIFA and HIFA-Zambia colleagues, Extracts below. Full text here: https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2022/morgue-data-reveals-true-covid... |
17 December, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1476) A Lasting Legacy of COVID-19: Far-Right Platforms Spreading Health Myths 'Health misinformation and disinformation amount to “probably the central problem for public health and safety in America, and yet no one knows what to do about it,” Lawrence Gostin commented to The New York Times.' https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/us/politics/covid-misinformation-gab.... It is ironic that this article is behind a paywall, so many of us cannot read it. In my view, it is important that expert commentary on health misinformation is freely available to all. |
2 December, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1475) Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of pregnant women regarding COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy in 7 LMICs Dear HIFA and HIFA-Zambia colleagues, CITATION: Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of pregnant women regarding COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy in 7 low- and middle-income countries: An observational trial from the Global Network for Women and Children’s Health Research Seemab Naqvi et al. First published: 21 May 2022 https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.17226Citations |
1 December, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1474) Communicating health research (130) This week's Lancet Offline column by Richard Horton looks at the launch of Confidence in Research, 'a report exploring attitudes of scientists to the practice and communication of science during the pandemic. Based on a survey of over 3000 researchers worldwide...' CITATION: Offline: COVID-19—the lessons that science forgot Richard Horton The Lancet - Comment| volume 400, issue 10365, p1753, november 19, 2022 Published:November 19, 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)02358-3 |
21 November, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1473) The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction Thanks to the WHO Information Network for Epidemics (EPI-WIN) I read this |
21 November, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1472) Conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 in Nigeria An interesting paper in Vaccine, Volume 40, Issue 13, 18 March 2022, Pages 2114-2121 Conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 in Nigeria: Implications for vaccine demand generation communications Chizoba Wonodia et al. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X22001268 |
20 November, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1471) Experience of Health Professionals with Misinformation and Its Impact on Their Job Practice Dear HIFA colleagues, Below are the citation and abstract of a paper on the Experience of Health Professionals with Misinformation and Its Impact on Their Job Practice. The paper is based on health workers in the UK. Do the findings resonate with you in your country? |
25 October, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1470) Webinar Oct 18th on COVID-19 Vaccine Implementation - Lessons Learned from Vietnam Please join the USAID-funded MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity project for a webinar on October 18, 2022 from 10-11am ET to hear from our Vietnam team about the lessons learned on COVID-19 vaccine implementation. Register Now! https://jsi.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_D41ZOsIzSNedJlOX8-JI7A |
15 October, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1469) Dr Tedros: Long Covid is devastating people’s lives and livelihoods Extracts below from a news article by Dr Tedros in The Guardian (UK). Read in full: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/12/long-covid-who-director-... -- Crushing fatigue. Brain fog making straightforward tasks almost impossible. Shortness of breath walking up the stairs... There are five key elements to drive the effort forward... |
13 October, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1468) COVID-19: 'The pandemic is over,' Biden says. Is it? A drammatic comment by American President Biden and everyone is wondering, is he Right? See W.H.O. comment on the same Covid pandemic. |
20 September, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1467) IPCRG iQ&A update: addressing current issues in COVID and beyond The IPCRG iQ&A <https://www.ipcrg.org/resources/ipcrg-covid-19-and-respiratory-qa> service continues to respond to the highest respiratory priority primary care questions from the COVID pandemic and is now also looking at other key issues. Our most recent answers include whether there is an algorithm to diagnose Chronic Cough as listed below. |
8 July, 2022 |
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