Ethical challenges in community engagement practices in research during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa

Name	World Continuing Education Alliance
Activity Title	Ethical challenges in community engagement practices in research during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
Details	When the World Health Organization declared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a global health pandemic (. Following recommendations from WHO, many African countries including Ghana, Kenya and South Africa have responded to the pandemic by implementing strict measures to stop the importation of new cases and to curb community spread. A broad spectrum of measures have been implemented including screening at ports of entry to identify people with fever, mandatory quarantine for travelers from counties with reported cases and for close contacts of suspected cases, travel restrictions, contact tracing and bans on non-essential travel, closure of schools and other social gatherings such as churches and mosques, social distancing, and partial, full-blown and very strict lockdowns. These swift actions may have contributed to relatively slow rate of growth in the number of cases reported in countries like Ghana, Kenya and South Africa. In all countries, hand hygiene and sanitation were implem...
Competence	Public Health
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Event Time	09:45 AM
Location	World Continuing Education Alliance eLearning System
Cost (UGX)	0
CPD Points	1