One novel virus, different beliefs as playmakers towards disease spread in Africa: looking at COVID-19 from a religious lens.

Ameyaw, EK; Hagan, JE; Ahinkorah, BO; Seidu, A-A; Schack, T

One novel virus, different beliefs as playmakers towards disease spread in Africa: looking at COVID-19 from a religious lens.

Ameyaw, EK Hagan, JE Ahinkorah, BO Seidu, A-A Schack, T

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Publisher:: Pan African Medical Journal
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: The Pan African medical journal, 2020, 36, pp. 365
Issue Date:: 2020-01

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Ameyaw, EK
dc.contributor.author	Hagan, JE
dc.contributor.author	Ahinkorah, BO
dc.contributor.author	Seidu, A-A
dc.contributor.author	Schack, T
dc.date.accessioned	2021-05-24T00:21:17Z
dc.date.available	2020-07-29
dc.date.available	2021-05-24T00:21:17Z
dc.date.issued	2020-01
dc.identifier.citation	The Pan African medical journal, 2020, 36, pp. 365
dc.identifier.issn	1937-8688
dc.identifier.issn	1937-8688
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/149137
dc.description.abstract	Religious and spiritual observances that draw large people together are pervasive in many parts of the world, including Africa. With the recent emergence of COVID-19, these mass religious gatherings may pose significant threats to human health. Given the compromised healthcare systems in many parts of Africa, faith-based institutions have a huge responsibility towards the management of the potential spread of the virus through effective organizational strategies or interventions. This essay sheds light on what the novel virus has to do with religion, the role of religious practices in inhibiting or spreading COVID-19, and what appropriate evidence-based interventions religious or faith-based organizations could adopt to help prevent the spread of the disease in Africa through a unity of thoughts for religious action.
dc.format	Electronic-eCollection
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Pan African Medical Journal
dc.relation.ispartof	The Pan African medical journal
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.11604/pamj.2020.36.365.25114
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject.mesh	Humans
dc.subject.mesh	Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola
dc.subject.mesh	Faith Healing
dc.subject.mesh	Hygiene
dc.subject.mesh	Christianity
dc.subject.mesh	Islam
dc.subject.mesh	Religion and Medicine
dc.subject.mesh	Africa
dc.subject.mesh	Pandemics
dc.subject.mesh	Faith-Based Organizations
dc.subject.mesh	COVID-19
dc.subject.mesh	SARS-CoV-2
dc.subject.mesh	Africa
dc.subject.mesh	COVID-19
dc.subject.mesh	Christianity
dc.subject.mesh	Faith Healing
dc.subject.mesh	Faith-Based Organizations
dc.subject.mesh	Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola
dc.subject.mesh	Humans
dc.subject.mesh	Hygiene
dc.subject.mesh	Islam
dc.subject.mesh	Pandemics
dc.subject.mesh	Religion and Medicine
dc.subject.mesh	SARS-CoV-2
dc.title	One novel virus, different beliefs as playmakers towards disease spread in Africa: looking at COVID-19 from a religious lens.
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	36
utslib.location.activity	Uganda
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Health
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Health/Public Health
utslib.copyright.status	open_access	*
dc.date.updated	2021-05-24T00:21:15Z
pubs.publication-status	Published
pubs.volume	36

Abstract:

Religious and spiritual observances that draw large people together are pervasive in many parts of the world, including Africa. With the recent emergence of COVID-19, these mass religious gatherings may pose significant threats to human health. Given the compromised healthcare systems in many parts of Africa, faith-based institutions have a huge responsibility towards the management of the potential spread of the virus through effective organizational strategies or interventions. This essay sheds light on what the novel virus has to do with religion, the role of religious practices in inhibiting or spreading COVID-19, and what appropriate evidence-based interventions religious or faith-based organizations could adopt to help prevent the spread of the disease in Africa through a unity of thoughts for religious action.

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