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Dr Jane Rarieya confirmed as Keynote Speaker for Research Week 2020.

Dr Jane Rariey has been confirmed as a keynote speaker during Research Week 2020. She will speak during the virtual 2nd Annual International Conference on Open, Distance and e-Learning. The theme of the conference is Optimising Open, Distance and e-Learning Approaches for Effective Teaching and Learning.

The Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic and its Role as an Agent of Social Change

COVID -19, a trending issue of global concern, has turned people’s lives upside down occasioning a huge amount of change in the world today. COVID -19 has fundamentally altered certain aspects of everyday life across the globe. In other words, COVID -19 has in one way or another occasioned changes in the way we do things, it has occasioned culture change.

Are alcohol-based hand sanitizers (rubs) being used properly?

The COVID-19 pandemic has propelled alcohol-based hand sanitizers (ABHS) and face-masks to the forefront in the fight against the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). A closer look at the labels of ABHS products on the market, however, reveals that directions for use are either absent, ambiguous or incomplete. Only a few are satisfactory, raising the question as to whether they are being used properly. A recent study by the authors revealed that 32 % of samples did not have any user instructions at all (Nyamweya and Abuga, 2020).

The New Ban on Alcohol is Actually Meant to Free Hospital Beds and ICU Units for COVID-19 Patients

In the recently released The Public Health (COVID-19 Sale of Alcoholic Drinks) Rules, 2020 developed under the Public Health Act (Cap. 242), The Cabinet Secretary for Health, Mutahi Kagwe, issued a number of guidelines that would have far reaching impact on the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Social Planning and Devolution: Counties Need Coherent Social Policies

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the social policy weaknesses of the devolved units of government as well as the absence of a coherent core across the different social development programmes of the National Government. For instance, the different social protection instruments implemented by the National Government but consumed at counties did not demonstrate a coordinated flow to be rapidly marshaled and deployed to address the pandemic-related crises.

New Project to Enhance Ground-Level Health Worker Capacity to Plan and Respond to COVID-19 among Vulnerable Populations

The COVID-19 pandemic was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 30 January 2020. Globally, health workers are at the front line of the interventions to combat COVID-19. While it is well known that healthcare workers (HCWs) risk contracting infectious diseases, the nature of COVID-19 exposes HCWs to new levels of risk.