Importance of Community-Level Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Community-level strategies are important in ensuring adequate control of disease outbreaks especially in sub-Saharan African countries. Learning from public health responses to previous infectious disease outbreaks is important in shaping these responses to COVID-19. This study aims to highlight and summarize the evidence from community-level interventions during infectious disease outbreaks in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

Social approaches to COVID-19 pandemic response: effectiveness and practicality in sub-Saharan Africa.

Introduction: the threat of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic to health systems and communities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is enormous. Social approaches such as distancing measures are essential components of the public health response to respiratory-related infectious disease outbreaks. Due to socio-economic and broader peculiarities of SSA countries, social approaches that were effective elsewhere may have limited practicality in these contexts, and if practical; may yield different or even adverse results.

Oral health knowledge and practices of dentists practicing in a teaching hospital in Nigeria.

Aim: To assess the oral health practices and knowledge of practicing dentists at a tertiary health institution in Nigeria, and the possible association of age and sex with caries prevention practices.

Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted. All practicing dentists in the institution were eligible to participate in the study.