Financial literacy and SME loan repayments in South Africa during the COVID-19 era

Echocardiography education in COVID-19 era

COVID-19 Outbreak in Africa: Lessons and Insights from the West African Ebola Virus Disease Epidemics

Over the years, the African continent has had to battle several outbreaks of infectious diseases in different countries. Some of the most deadly were the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks that occurred in West Africa between 2014 and 2016 affecting Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone and, more recently, from 2018 to 2020 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In the era of the COVID-19 pand...

Economic Consequences of COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa Region Countries

From the first reported case of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on December 30, 2019 in Wuhan, China, the number of confirmed cases of the disease has been increased continuously and exponentially up to now. The event has emerged as a clear threat to global health such that the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the outbreak of the disease a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The ...

For-Profit Hospitals Out of Business? Financial Sustainability During the COVID-19 Epidemic Emergency Response

This perspective argues that for-profit hospitals will be heavily affected by epidemic crises, including the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. Policy-makers should be aware that for-profit hospitals in particular are likely to face financial distress. The suspension of all non-urgent elective surgery and the relegation of market-based mechanisms that...

Stigmatization, Discrimination, Racism, Injustice, and Inequalities in the COVID-19 Era