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Due to systemic upheavals linked to the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of vulnerable Africans lack access to quality physical care, reducing their quality of life and their ability to lift themselves out of excessive poverty. We will have to take steps to achieve this. making sure everyone, regardless of where they live, has access to quality physical care and the equipment they want to fight COVID-19. Join the movement by performing here.
Africa’s largest clinical trial of possible remedies for COVID-19 is underway with the participation of thirteen African countries and a team of global researchers. Responses to the coronavirus are then asked for the most suitable for Africa’s unique fitness challenges.
The test aims to identify the first remedies that can be used for mild and moderate cases of COVID-19 and avoid hospitalization spikes that can overwhelm already fragile, under-funded and overburdened fitness systems on the continent.
The study “Anticov”, as it is called, which also arrives at the Institute of Tropical Medicine antwerp and foreign institutes, will be carried out in 19 sites in thirteen countries and will be led by African doctors.
“There is a need for giant clinical trials in Africa for COVID-19 to answer questions from studies expressed in the African context,” said Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the Guardian.
He added: “So far, African countries have put an impressive reaction to COVID-19 in position and now it is time to prepare for the long-running waves of the disease. This will answer one of our most urgent questions: with limited extensive care services. In Africa, can we treat others with COVID-19 before and prevent our hospitals from being overwhelmed?
The test will be an open, randomized, comparative and adaptive testing platform (a clinical trial approach first introduced for cancer drugs that verifies other remedies) and will check the effectiveness of remedies in 2000 to 3000 moderate patients in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea Array, Kenya , Mali, Mozambique, Sudan and Uganda.
The concept is to identify remedies that can prevent the progression of coronavirus to a serious disease and also restrict transmission. As an adaptive platform trial, scientists will be able to make quick decisions, adding to add, prosecute or prevent non-stop-based remedy sections.
“The Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, has been working intensively with its partners in Ethiopia for many years,” said Johan Van Griensven of the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine.
“With more than 10 other African countries, we can find out if COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms and who receive an early remedy have less severe complications,” he added. “This strategy is mandatory to avoid the fragile formula of physical conditioning of a load, since in African countries there are few hospitals with the right staff and extensive care packages. “
The Guardian reports that trials will begin with tests opposed to one arm: the anti-HIV mixture lopinavir-ritonavir and the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, which remains the popular treatment for COVID-19 today in many African countries.
“It’s encouraging to see so many African countries combining to get much-needed answers to the exclusive wishes of our COVID-19 patients,” said Dr. Borna Nyaoke-Anoke, senior clinical project manager at Drugs for Neglected Diseases (DNDi), which also sponsors clinical trials in the Democratic Republic of congo, Kenya and Sudan.
He added: “Africa has more commonly moved away from large-scale mortality in other countries, however, in order to close and open borders, we want to be prepared. We want studies here in Africa that indicate the evidence and the remedy. “policies and strategies, so that, as doctors, we can offer the most productive characteristics to others with COVID-19.
Launched in April through seven global partners, ACT-Accelerator is an exclusive coalition to drive global efforts opposed to the COVID-19 pandemic. fragile fitness systems.
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