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Kifuatilia Utafiti wa COVID-19

This section provides links to research reports on COVID-19 and related public health issues. It aims to make the results of those research activities available to more scientists and researchers in Africa and from around the world.

African Academy of Sciences

Contains updated Africa-based COVID-19 research tracker. Planned and ongoing projects are included on separate tabs. Accepts submissions from African institutions.

WHO Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network

GOARN research tracker, hosted by GLOPID-R, contains global reach and not exclusively based in COVID-19.

The Global Health Network

Contains various sub-groups and pages from Africa-based research institutions.

Gambia MRC page

Large multinational trials (solidarity trial page).

And specific professional and technical interest groups (research nurses page).

AfricaRXIV

A free, open source and community-led digital archive for African researchers. Covers various STEM subjects.

Refers to WHO and Africa CDC resources.

Hosts a chatbot which has COVID-19 information in multiple African languages and well and technical innovations being researched in Africa to aid the COVID-19 response.

Curated research and policy directories

International Resource for Infection Control

A hub for international guidelines from various organisations worldwide, not COVID-19 specific.

Birmingham University COVID-19 research briefing

Includes research articles and media, about 75 expert contributors’ feedback on credibility and evidence base. Emphasis in on UK articles.

US CDC COVID-19 guidelines for IPC in non-US settings

US CDC resource list of adapted guidelines for LMICs. Not Africa specific.

ICAN

Resources page from a variety of sources, some open to members only.

WHO AFRO

Technical guidance on IPC and other subjects focussed on the AFRO region.

Africa CDC Science and Public Health Policy Brief

Weekly update on publications related to COVID-19 hosted along with other Africa CDC guidelines and resources.

WHO COVID-19

Technical guidance regularly updated on various areas including IPC, global perspective.

Lit Covid

Comprehensive literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information on COVID-19, updated daily, linked to Pubmed and can search by location and category.

Pan African Network for Rapid Research Response and Preparedness for Infectious Diseases Epidemics

Multidisciplinary consortium, has a publications page with African Infectious disease research open access.

Covipendium

Living paper on COVID-19 – structured compilation of scientific data about the virus, the disease and its control. Its objective is to identify the most relevant publications on COVID-19, updated weekly.

University of Edinburgh – Usher Institute

Rapid reviews of specific issues around the control of COVID-19.

University of Adelaide – JBI

Evidence-based summaries for health professionals managing COVID-19.

AfricaRXIV

Preprint repository for African research.