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BMJ Glob Health. 2020 May;5(5). doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002844.

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

BMJ global health

Salahuddin Ahmed, Tisungane Mvalo, Samuel Akech, Ambrose Agweyu, Kevin Baker, Naor Bar-Zeev, Harry Campbell, William Checkley, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Tim Colbourn, Steve Cunningham, Trevor Duke, Mike English, Adegoke G Falade, Nicholas Ss Fancourt, Amy S Ginsburg, Hamish R Graham, Diane M Gray, Madhu Gupta, Laura Hammitt, Anneke C Hesseling, Shubhada Hooli, Abdul-Wahab Br Johnson, Carina King, Miles A Kirby, Claudio F Lanata, Norman Lufesi, Grant A Mackenzie, John P McCracken, Peter P Moschovis, Harish Nair, Osawaru Oviawe, William S Pomat, Mathuram Santosham, James A Seddon, Lineo Keneuoe Thahane, Brian Wahl, Marieke Van der Zalm, Charl Verwey, Lay-Myint Yoshida, Heather J Zar, Stephen Rc Howie, Eric D McCollum

Affiliations

  1. Projahnmo Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  2. NIHR Global Health Unit on Respiratory Health (RESPIRE), London, United Kingdom.
  3. University of North Carolina Project Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi.
  4. Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
  5. KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
  6. Malaria Consortium, London, United Kingdom.
  7. Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  8. Center for Global Health, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
  9. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  10. Dhaka Hospital, Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease and Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  11. Global Health Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
  12. Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
  13. Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
  14. Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
  15. School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Goroka, Papua New Guinea.
  16. Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
  17. Division of Paediatric Pulmonology, Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine and University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.
  18. Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
  19. Clinical Trial Center, University of Washington, Seattle, United States.
  20. Centre for International Child Health, MCRI, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
  21. Department of Paediatrics, University College Hospital Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
  22. Division Paediatric Pulmonology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
  23. Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
  24. Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
  25. Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, United States.
  26. Pulmonology & Infectious Disease Unit, Department of Paediatrics & Child Health, University of Ilorin/University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria.
  27. Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
  28. Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
  29. Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States.
  30. Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, Lima, Peru.
  31. Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
  32. Community Health Sciences Unit, Malawi Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi.
  33. MRC Unit, The Gambia at LSHTM, Fajara, Gambia.
  34. Faculty of Infectious & Tropical Diseases, LSHTM, London, United Kingdom.
  35. Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
  36. Center for Health Studies, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
  37. Divisions of Pulmonary Medicine and Global Health, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  38. Department of Child Health, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Nigeria.
  39. Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea.
  40. Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
  41. Baylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation - Lesotho, Maseru, Lesotho.
  42. Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
  43. The International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI) at Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
  44. Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
  45. Division of Paediatric Pulmonology, Department of Paediatrics, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  46. Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Medical Research Council, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  47. Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
  48. Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
  49. SA-MRC Unit on Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
  50. Department of Paediatrics: Child & Youth Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand [email protected] [email protected].
  51. Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA [email protected] [email protected].
  52. 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.

PMID: 32461228 PMCID: PMC7254117 DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002844

[No abstract available.]

Keywords: child health; paediatrics; pneumonia; respiratory infections

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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