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Since early June, more than 7,000 refugees and displaced persons have arrived in the African nation of Uganda, most fleeing violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
“Even in the middle of a pandemic, we see displaced people,” says Carmen Logie of the University of Toronto, a professor at the Inwentash-Factor Social Service Faculty.
The same Logie studies focus on upcoming interventions to combat stigma and other social points related to HIV and sexually transmitted infections. It has long placed specific emphasis on refugees and displaced persons in countries such as Haiti and Uganda.
“We already have a review in Kampala on urban refugees, but we had to suspend it when COVID-19 forced everyone to isolate themselves,” says Logie, Canada’s President of Research on Global Equity in Health and Social Justice with Marginalized Populations. “Our network partners in Kampala have been familiar with the lack of data applicable to the prevention of COVID-19 among other young people in their language. We, using social media equipment will be an innovative and effective way to be informed about your reports and wisdom about the virus and provide them with the data they need”.
Logie’s study team is one of 139 in Canada with a percentage of more than $109 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (IRSC), awarded as a component of its investment competition for immediate studies. Includes 8 groups of the U of T and 18 of the university’s component hospitals. All in COVID-19 studies.
“The University of Toronto is grateful to CHRD for this vital investment, which will enable our researchers to contribute to the global effort to perceive COVID-19,” says university professor Ted Sargent, vice president of research and innovation at the university. Toronto and strategic initiatives. “It should be noted that this investment focuses on projects, such as Professor Logie’s, where there will be collaboration with researchers from low- and middle-income countries.”
Logie works with Richard Lester, a professor at the University of British Columbia, and Gabrielle Serafini, who developed WelTel, a text messaging app that is helping healthcare professionals with patients.
There are about 1.4 million refugees in Uganda, the largest refugee host country in sub-Saharan Africa, 80,000 of which in Kampala.
Logie points out that adolescents and other young people account for almost a part of the world’s population of refugees and displaced persons.
“In humanitarian situations, other people’s wishes are not understood or fulfilled,” she says. “This is also true in pandemics and, in particular, with other young people and adolescents. For example, we found that hand hygiene studies in Uganda were not conducted with adolescents. They targeted adults and children.”
“We know that adolescents have their own lived experiences and challenges, so we need to understand that and enable them to express themselves.”
With this in mind, Logie, his collaborators at UBC and refugee agencies at the apartment in Kampala will adapt the WelTel generation to engage refugee youth and adolescents. The goal, Says Logie, is to help them “talk about the effect of COVID-19 on their lives.” We’ll extend an organization chat app to send data and allow other young people to apply this data to their lives. »»
While the pandemic has exacerbated disorders such as isolation and poverty around the world, it has an effect on the logie study population in Uganda that has been particularly severe.
“In refugee camps in northern Uganda, for example, the only places where they had to interact with others and remain busy in the face of widespread unemployment were places like churches, networking centers and shops,” he says. “But now that COVID-19 has forced others to stay at home or in refugee camps, they are suffering with isolation.”
Equally concerned is having an effect on food insecurity.
“For young refugees in Kampala, before COVID-19, we discovered that 70% did not have enough to eat. Now our spouse agencies say it’s even worse with the lockdown that doesn’t allow other people to work,” Logie says.
“This is true all over the world, however, among refugees in Kampala, they want to make cash every day until that day. The effect of confinement is therefore normal: it puts other people in another size of poverty.”
The following researchers from the University of Toronto and its spouse hospitals have obtained CRSC investments for COVID-19-like projects:
Philip Awadalla, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; department of molecular genetics in the Faculty of Medicine; Surveilling Prospective Population Cohorts for COVID19 Prevalence and Outcomes in Canada (SUPPORT-Canada)
Angela Cheung, University Health Network; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Canadian COVID-19 Prospective Cohort Study (CanCOV)
Vladimir Dzavik, University Health Network; department of medicine in the Faculty of Medicine; Semaglutide to Reduce Myocardia Injury in Patients with COVID-19 (SEMPATICO): An Exploratory Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial
Andrea Gershon, Sunnybrook Research Institute; IHPME in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health; CovidFree@Home: Development and Validation of a Multivariable Prediction Model of deterioration in Patients Diagnosed with COVID-19 Who Are Managing at Home
Daniel Grace, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Engage-COVID-19: A combination of strategies on the biomedical, behavioral and psychosocial facets of the COVID-19 pandemic among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Canada
Astrid Guttmann, hospital for children with health problems; IHPME at Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Deferred care results in Canadian children and young people: COVID-19 risk measurement and mitigation
Joanna Henderson, Center for Addiction and Mental Health; Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine; Youth intellectual aptitude and substance use in the context of COVID-19: a multi-component programme for young people and immediate action
Angela Jerath, Sunnybrook Research Institute; Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Faculty of Medicine; Sedation with volatile anesthetic agents in patients with COVID-19 critical in intensive care: effects on ventilatory parameters and survival (SAVE-UCI trial)
Kevin Kain, University Health Network; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology of the Faculty of Medicine; Randomized trial to determine the effect of vitamin D and zinc supplements to improve remedy outcomes in COVID-19 patients in Mumbai, India
Murray Krahn, University Health Network; IHPME at Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Response of provincial health systems to COVID-19: provision of health services and costs, first nations and other populations
Douglas Lee, University Health Network; IHPME at Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Improved Canadian studies on the effects of the new SARS-CoV-2 analytics: the Corona consortium
Jordan Lerner-Ellis, Sinai Health System; department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology in the Faculty of Medicine; Implementation of Serological and Molecular Tools to Inform COVID-19 Patient Management
Christoph Licht, hospital for children with health problems; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology of the Faculty of Medicine; A central role of the vascular endothelium in the pathogenesis of COVID-19
Jun Liu, department of molecular genetics in the Faculty of Medicine; Development of Safe and Effective Vaccines Against COVID-19
Carmen Logie, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work; Kukaa Salama (Staying Safe): A Pre-post Trial of a WhatsApp Social Group for Increasing COVID-19 Prevention Practices with Urban Refugee and Displaced Youth in Kampala, Uganda
David McMillen, department of chemical and physical sciences, U of T Mississauga; Development of a Yeast-Based Immunoassay for SARS-CoV-2 Serologic Testing Amenable to Inexpensive Local Production
Sharmistha Mishra, St. Michael’s Hospital; IHPME in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Evaluating the Differential Impact of What We Have Done As We Prioritize What to Do Next: A Multi-Provincial Intervention Modeling Study Using Population-Based Data
Peter Newman, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work; An International Multi-site, Randomized Controlled Trial of a Brief eHealth Intervention to Increase COVID-19 Knowledge and Protective Behaviors, and Reduce Pandemic Stress Among Diverse LGBT+ People
Deborah O’Connor, Sinai Health System; department of nutritional sciences in the Faculty of Medicine; Can COVID-19 and Maternal Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 be Transmitted Through Human Milk? Implications for Breastfeeding and Human Milk Banking
Keith Pardee, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy; Portable, Low-cost Hardware for De-centralized COVID-19 Diagnostics for Canada, Colombia and Ecuador
Robert Rottapel, University Health Network; Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine; Development of a predictive serological for cytopathogenic autoantibodies in patients with COVID-19
Darrel Tan, Toronto Health Unit; IHPME at Dalla Lana School of Public Health; COVID-19 ring prevention trial with Lopinavir / ritonavir (CORIPREV-LR)
Amol Verma, Unity Health Toronto; IHPME in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health; The COVID-19 Hospital Analytics Laboratory: Improving the Clinical, Organizational, and System Response to COVID-19
Tania Watts, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine; Towards comprehensive adaptive immunity to SARS-CoV-2
Daniel Werb, Toronto Health Unit; IHPME at Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Rapid assessment of the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and reaction on clinical and social outcomes, use of the service, and the source of unregulated drugs for other people using drugs in Toronto
Jia Xue, Inwentash-Factor Social Work School: Largest COVID-19 Domestic Violence Quarantine Threat in Canada: Strengthening Social Media Collaborations between Nonprofits to Save Lives
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