What is it about?
The study reports on COVID-19 Infection among pregnant women in Sub-Saharan Africa from a 6-Country retrospective cohort analysis that investigated the impact of pregnancy on SARS-CoV-2 infection and of SARS-CoV-2 infection on pregnancy to generate evidence for health policy and clinical practice.
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Why is it important?
One of the first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa to describe the maternal and neonatal outcomes of the impacts of COVID-19 infection on pregnancy and pregnancy on the infection.
Perspectives
Writing this article was a great pleasure for me, being a multi-centre multi-country research working with a large group of co-authors from different disciplines, forging a collaboration with potential for further research endeavour. The article particularly describes the unique clinical characteristics of a novel disease affecting a vulnerable population during a global pandemic to provide evidence for prioritization of pregnant women in disease prevention through vaccination.
Professor Lawal W Umar
Department of Paediatrics, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria
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This page is a summary of: OUP accepted manuscript, Clinical Infectious Diseases, January 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciac294.
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