A thread for news from Africa, excluding South Africa which has its own thread, and North African countries in the MENA grouping which have their own thread. Not that any of this matters to the people pushing the garbage about "secondary benefits" and "cultural illness", but this obviously contradicts their weird ass-narrative. If only other people cared about how nonsensical their ideology is. Because they won't care, but if only other people whose job it is to care about facts actually did care about such things. https://twitter.com/user/status/1406322512124907520
copying the link from the tweet above https://mg.co.za/africa/2021-02-28-living-with-long-covid-in-lagos/ I thought this was a terrific article, well worth a read. It dates back to February 2021. Well done to the author, Bolu Akindele.
Not a great article overall, though it does have good bits, and plenty of bad ones, but I'm sure deniers will be saying this is a first-world problem for a long time anyway. Still Nigeria, would be good to hear from other countries too. Seems to be more of a magazine feature, fairly long. Concerns as COVID-19 survivors live with life threatening conditions https://guardian.ng/features/concerns-as-covid-19-survivors-live-with-life-threatening-conditions/
ME patients: narrative, victories and challenges for people with hidden disabilities in Egypt Ayman Youssif, the first in Egypt and the Middle East to obtain a PhD in Invisible Disabilities from New York University, discusses recent achievements and aspirations for those with his condition.
Sadly, I think he's either a con man or someone ignorant who has been conned by a bogus US university that sells degrees. We have a thread about him: https://www.s4me.info/threads/“insp...the-library-of-alexandria”.32094/#post-462708
Oh wow. I thought there were some weird elements in the article when I read it in the morning but it is not rare to find things we don't like/agree with in articles with pwME or even some researchers sometimes, as seen here in the forum, so I assumed it was just one of those cases.
A new paper out on PASC in Liberia: Prevalence and determinants of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 in Liberia, 2023, Gwaikolo et al.
Hidden disability: The quiet struggle with Long Covid in Kenya https://thesicktimes.org/2024/04/09/hidden-disability-the-quiet-struggle-with-long-covid-in-kenya/ The article mentions this paper: Incidence and burden of long COVID in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2023, Frallonardo et al.
Long Covid in Nigeria A systematic analysis of neurologic manifestations of Long COVID in Nigeria, 2024, Akase et al.
