Social Policy

The Rise of Telepharmacy Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comprehensive Assessment of Services in the United Arab Emirates

Pharmacy Practice This article explores changes in community pharmacies’ processes in response to the pandemic in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and factors affecting the adoption of these changes. Journal Article

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Distress Symptoms during the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Study with the General Population of the United Arab Emirates

Pharmacy Practice This article analyzes distress symptoms resulting surfacing during the COVID-19 lockdown period and their associated factors among a sample of the UAE population. Journal Article

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Bahrain COVID-19 Case Studies

World Health Organization This World Health Organization report lauds the Bahraini government of Bahrain for its management of the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights lessons learned from the Kingdom’s lockdown, testing, and vaccination experiences. Report

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Awareness, knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices before the Second Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Saudi Arabia

European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences This article assesses the knowledge, awareness, and attitudes of the general population in Saudi Arabia towards COVID-19, as well as its adherence to preventive measures and its willingness to take the vaccine. Journal Article

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Assessing the Effectiveness of the Djiboutian Government during the COVID-19: Focusing on the Djiboutian Perspective

Figshare This study assesses the Djiboutian government’s effectiveness in combating COVID-19 through studying different indicators like citizen trust in government, government responsiveness and leadership, and COVID-19 information access and accuracy. Results conveyed a strong link between responsiveness and effectiveness. Journal Article

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Exploring the Role of Superspreading Events in SARS-CoV-2 Outbreaks

medRxiv This article presents a study that formulates a Markov chain model to investigate the influence of superspreading events on SARS-COV-2 outbreak dynamics. Working Paper

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Pandemic Price Controls Experiment Goes Seriously Awry in Kuwait

Bloomberg This Bloomberg article reports on the indiscriminate economic havoc that has risen in Kuwait two years after price control was applied to freeze food costs during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak. Article

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Recovering from COVID-19 Learning Losses [Arabic]

UNICEF This UNICEF article delineates the various challenges that the pandemic has posed for children and their learning in Egypt. The article focuses on marginalized children of color or refugee status and recognizes that despite the progress achieved in the education sector in Egypt, marginalized children are still far behind expectations for their age in…

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Recovering from COVID-19 Learning Losses

UNICEF This UNICEF article delineates the various challenges that the pandemic has posed for children and their learning in Egypt. The article focuses on marginalized children of color or refugee status and recognizes that despite the progress achieved in the education sector in Egypt, marginalized children are still far behind expectations for their age in…

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The Impact of the COVID-19 Related School Closure on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Children with SEN and Their Parents in Algeria

International Journal of Disability, Development and Education This study studies and analyzes the experience of twenty-three parents and five children with special educational needs during complete lockdown and limited access to school support in Algeria. Journal Article

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