{"id":2887,"date":"2024-01-04T07:42:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T07:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afcen.nwtdemos.com\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2024-01-04T07:42:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T07:42:13","slug":"priorities-for-covid-19-control-in-uganda-and-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chs.mak.ac.ug\/afcen\/blog\/2024\/01\/04\/priorities-for-covid-19-control-in-uganda-and-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Priorities for COVID-19 control in Uganda and Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Evidence Synthesis (CovPRES) group conducts rapid evidence synthesis to support evidence based decision making on policies aimed at controlling COVID-19 in Uganda. CoVPRES is supported by Makerere University Research and Innovation Fund (MakRIF) and Dr. Moses Ocan is the Principal Investigator. As a start, CoVPRES routinely identifies priority interventions informed by surveying key stakeholders in Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies; the private sector and health care providers. This exercise will identify new policy concerns and validate the relevance of the existing priorities: community use of masks; mass testing and decent work for frontline healthcare professionals. To take part in this survey\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/T8JAYUeDG3wGmiWy5\">please follow this link and fill out the questionnaire<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Evidence Synthesis (CovPRES) group conducts rapid evidence synthesis to support evidence based decision making on policies aimed at controlling COVID-19 in Uganda. CoVPRES is supported by Makerere University Research and Innovation Fund (MakRIF) and Dr. Moses Ocan is the Principal Investigator. As a start, CoVPRES routinely identifies priority interventions informed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[69],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chs.mak.ac.ug\/afcen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chs.mak.ac.ug\/afcen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chs.mak.ac.ug\/afcen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chs.mak.ac.ug\/afcen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chs.mak.ac.ug\/afcen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chs.mak.ac.ug\/afcen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2889,"href":"https:\/\/chs.mak.ac.ug\/afcen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions\/2889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chs.mak.ac.ug\/afcen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chs.mak.ac.ug\/afcen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chs.mak.ac.ug\/afcen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chs.mak.ac.ug\/afcen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}