Mouallem, Roula El; Moussally, Krystel; Williams, Anita; Repetto, Ernestina; Menassa, Marilyne; Martino, Chiara; Sittah, Ghassan Abu (2021). How COVID-19 highlighted the need for infection prevention and control measures to become central to the global conversation: experience from the conflict settings of the Middle-East. International journal of infectious diseases, 111, pp. 55-57. Elsevier 10.1016/j.ijid.2021.08.034
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The COVID-19 pandemic has managed to bring to the foreground, in just few months, the conversation around what Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) experts have been pushing for decades to control the spread of infections. Implementing the basics of IPC has been a challenge for all affected countries battling with an exponential COVID-19 curve of infection, preventing nosocomial transmission of the disease in highly-resourced and stable contexts but more so in the conflict context of the Middle-East. COVID-19 has created additional challenges to a long list of existing ones hindering the implementation of optimal IPC measures, necessary to break the chain of infection of both respiratory and non-respiratory infections, in those settings. This paper outlines and gives examples of the challenges faced across the Middle East conflict setting and serves as a call for action for IPC to be prioritized, given the needed resources, and fed with contextualized evidence.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Menassa, Marilyne |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 360 Social problems & social services |
ISSN: |
1201-9712 |
Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Doris Kopp Heim |
Date Deposited: |
30 Aug 2021 15:35 |
Last Modified: |
18 Jan 2023 09:12 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1016/j.ijid.2021.08.034 |
PubMed ID: |
34419586 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Conflict Covid-19 Infection Prevention Control Middle-East |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/159082 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/159082 |
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