The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged health systems across the world. As the pandemic continues to spread and social distancing measures and strict lockdowns remain in place, low- and middle-income countries have had to adapt context-specific solutions to meet their unique health system needs. GHSP hopes to help address the needs of those countries by publishing articles that focus on adapting lessons learned to these settings. Please check back regularly for new articles.
EDITORIALS
Will the higher-income country blueprint for COVID-19 work in low- and lower middle-income countries?
Stephen Hodgins and Abdulmamin Saad
VIEWPOINTS
The COVID-19 Pandemic Exposes Another Commercial Determinant of Health: The Global Firearm Industry
Adnan A. Hyder, Meghan Werbick, Lauren Scannelli and Nino Paichadze
Global Access to Technology-Enhanced Medical Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Students in Narrowing the Gap
Aleksander Dawidziuk,Michal Kawka, Bartosz Szyszka, Ignatius Wadunde, and Aastha Ghimire
Multimonth dispensing of antiretroviral therapy protects the most vulnerable from 2 pandemics at once
Ariana Moriah Traub, Temitayo Ifafore-Calfee, and Benjamin Ryan Phelps
Doing things differently: what it would take to ensure continued access to contraception during COVID-19
Michelle Weinberger, Brendan Hayes, Julia White, and John Skibiak
Contraception in the era of COVID-19
Kavita Nanda, Elena Lebetkin, Markus J. Steiner, Irina Yacobson and Laneta J. Dorflinger
Coping with COVID-19: learning from past pandemics to avoid pitfalls and panic
Daniel T. Halperin
COMMENTARIES
The Conundrum of Low COVID-19 Mortality Burden in sub-Saharan Africa: Myth or Reality?
Janica Adams, Mary J. MacKenzie, Adeladza Kofi Amegah, Alex Ezeh, Muktar A. Gadanya, Akinyinka Omigbodun, Ahmed M. Sarki, Paul Thistle, Abdhalah K. Ziraba, Saverio Stranges and Michael Silverman
COVID-19 Pandemic in India: Through the Lens of Modeling
Giridhara R. Babu, Debashree Ray, Ritwik Bhaduri, Aritra Halder, Ritoban Kundu, Gautam I. Menon and Bhramar Mukherjee
Social Distancing in the Era of COVID-19: A Call for Maintaining Social Support for the Maternal Population
Alaa Alhomaizi, Dalal Alhomaizi, Sandra Willis and Helen Verdeli
Opportunities and challenges of delivering postabortion care and postpartum family planning during the COVID-19 pandemic
Anne Pfitzer, Eva Lathrop, Alison Bodenheimer, Saumya RamaRao, Megan Christofield, Patricia MacDonald, Bethany Arnold, Neeta Bhatnagar, Erin Mielke, and Meredith Mikulich
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Prevention of COVID-19 in Internally Displaced Persons Camps in War-Torn North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Mixed-Methods Study
Kasereka M. Claude, Muyisa Sahika Serge, Kahindo Kahatane Alexis, and Michael T. Hawkes
FIELD ACTION REPORTS
Real-Time Tracking of COVID-19 Rumors Using Community-Based Methods in Côte d’Ivoire
Natalie Tibbels, Abdul Dosso, Aliya Allen-Valley, William Benie, Corinne Fordham, Jeanne Aka Brou, Marjorie Nana, Valère Zounneme, Korodénin Fatoumata Silué, Diarra Kamara and Danielle Naugle
Navigating the COVID-19 Crisis to Sustain Community-Based Malaria Interventions in Cambodia
Mitra Feldman, Lieven Vernaeve, James Tibenderana, Leo Braack, Mark Debackere, Htin Kyaw Thu, Prudence Hamade and Koung Lo
Remote interviewer training for COVID-19 data collection: challenges and lessons learned from 3 countries in sub-Saharan Africa
Shani Turke, Sarah Nehrling, Samuel Olanipekun Adebayo, Pierre Akilimali, Ivan Idiodi, Anthony Mwangi, Elizabeth Larson, Caroline Moreau and Philip Anglewicz
Navigating the COVID-19 Crisis to Sustain Community-Based Malaria Interventions in Cambodia
Mitra Feldman, Lieven Vernaeve, James Tibenderana, Leo Braack, Mark Debackere, Htin Kyaw Thu, Prudence Hamade, and Koung Lo
METHODOLOGIES
Mask reuse in the COVID-19 pandemic: creating an inexpensive and scalable ultraviolet system for filtering facepiece respirator decontamination
Rachel M. Gilbert, Michael J. Donzanti, Daniel J. Minahan, Jasmine Shirazi, Christine L. Hatem, Brielle Hayward-Piatkovskyi, Allyson M. Dang, Katherine M. Nelson, Kimberly L. Bothi, and Jason P. Gleghorn
TECHNICAL NOTES
Improving hospital oxygen systems for COVID-19 in low-resource settings: lessons from the field
Hamish R. Graham, Sheillah M. Bagayana, Ayobami A. Bakare, Bernard O. Olayo, Stefan S. Peterson, Trevor Duke, and Adegoke G. Falade