What is it about?
Data on COVID-19 in kids in Africa are lacking. Collaborations are critical to obtain data to understand the effects of COVID-19 on health outcomes in children. The review advocates for collaborative research to pool such data in African countries.
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Why is it important?
It will help in bridging the existing knowledge gap on the effect of COVID-19 among African children and Adolescents.
Perspectives
Our expectation is that this article will serve as a stimulus to clinicians and researchers across resource constrained settings of sub-Saharan Africa to forge collaborations that could enable multi-center and multi-country research on childhood Infectious diseases in general and COVID-19 in particular.
Professor Lawal W Umar
Department of Paediatrics, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria
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This page is a summary of: The Critical Need for Pooled Data on Coronavirus Disease 2019 in African Children: An AFREhealth Call for Action Through Multicountry Research Collaboration, Clinical Infectious Diseases, February 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciab142.
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