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Protecting children in low-income and middle-income countries from COVID-19

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  • Salahuddin Ahmed Projahnmo Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh NIHR Global Health Unit on Respiratory Health (RESPIRE), London, United Kingdom PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tisungane Mvalo University of North Carolina Project Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Samuel Akech KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ambrose Agweyu KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kevin Baker Malaria Consortium, London, United Kingdom PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Naor Bar-Zeev Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Harry Campbell NIHR Global Health Unit on Respiratory Health (RESPIRE), London, United Kingdom Center for Global Health, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • William Checkley Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mohammod Jobayer Chisti Dhaka Hospital, Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease and Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tim Colbourn Global Health Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Steve Cunningham NIHR Global Health Unit on Respiratory Health (RESPIRE), London, United Kingdom Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Trevor Duke Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Goroka, Papua New Guinea PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mike English KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Adegoke G Falade Division of Paediatric Pulmonology, Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine and University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nicholas SS Fancourt Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Amy S Ginsburg Clinical Trial Center, University of Washington, Seattle, United States PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hamish R Graham Centre for International Child Health, MCRI, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Department of Paediatrics, University College Hospital Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Diane M Gray Division Paediatric Pulmonology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Madhu Gupta Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Laura Hammitt Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Anneke C Hesseling Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Shubhada Hooli Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, United States PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Abdul-Wahab BR Johnson Pulmonology & Infectious Disease Unit, Department of Paediatrics & Child Health, University of Ilorin/University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Carina King Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Miles A Kirby Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Claudio F Lanata Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, Lima, Peru Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Norman Lufesi Community Health Sciences Unit, Malawi Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Grant A Mackenzie MRC Unit, The Gambia at LSHTM, Fajara, Gambia Faculty of Infectious & Tropical Diseases, LSHTM, London, United Kingdom Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • John P McCracken Center for Health Studies, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Peter P Moschovis Divisions of Pulmonary Medicine and Global Health, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Harish Nair NIHR Global Health Unit on Respiratory Health (RESPIRE), London, United Kingdom Center for Global Health, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Osawaru Oviawe Department of Child Health, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Nigeria PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • William S Pomat Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mathuram Santosham Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • James A Seddon Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lineo Keneuoe Thahane Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation – Lesotho, Maseru, Lesotho Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA The International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI) at Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Brian Wahl Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Marieke Van der Zalm Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Charl Verwey Division of Paediatric Pulmonology, Department of Paediatrics, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Medical Research Council, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lay-Myint Yoshida Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Heather J Zar Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa SA-MRC Unit on Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Stephen RC Howie Department of Paediatrics: Child & Youth Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Eric D McCollum Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Johns Hopkins Global Program in Pediatric Respiratory Sciences, Eudowood Division of Pediatric Respiratory Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Eric D McCollum; emccoll3{at}jhmi.edu; Dr Stephen RC Howie; stephen.howie{at}auckland.ac.nz
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Citation

Ahmed S, Mvalo T, Akech S, et al
Protecting children in low-income and middle-income countries from COVID-19
BMJ Global Health 2020;5:e002844.

Publication history

  • Received May 6, 2020
  • Accepted May 8, 2020
  • First published May 26, 2020.
Online issue publication 
December 12, 2023

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