Mass masking as a way to contain COVID-19 and exit lockdown in low- and middle-income countries

Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo; Supa Pengpid; Edlaine Faria de Moura Villela; Vo Van Thang; Mohammed Ahmed; John Ditekemena; Bernardo Vega Crespo; Rhoda K. Wanyenze; Janeth Dula; Takashi Watanabe; Christopher Delgado-Ratto; Koen Vanden Driessche; Rafael Van den Bergh; Robert Colebunders

doi:10.1016/j.jinf.2020.07.015

Mass masking as a way to contain COVID-19 and exit lockdown in low- and middle-income countries

Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo (First Author)
, Supa Pengpid
, Edlaine Faria de Moura Villela
, Vo Van Thang
, Mohammed Ahmed
, John Ditekemena
, Bernardo Vega Crespo
, Rhoda K. Wanyenze
, Janeth Dula
, Takashi Watanabe
, Christopher Delgado-Ratto
, Koen Vanden Driessche
, Rafael Van den Bergh
, Robert Colebunders

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Universidade Federal de Jataí
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Mogadishu University
Université de Kinshasa
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Faculty of Health Science
Makerere University
Instituto Nacional de Saude Maputo
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Radboud University Nijmegen

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Abstract

In new guidelines published on June 5th 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that in areas with ongoing COVID-19 community transmission, governments should encourage the general public to wear face masks in specific situations and settings as part of a comprehensive approach to suppress COVID-19 transmission. Recent online surveys in 206,729 persons residing in nine low- and middle-income countries showed that 32.7%-99.7% of respondents used face masks with significant differences across age groups and sexes. Targeted health promotion strategies and government support are required to increase mask use by the general population.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	e1-e5
Journal	Journal of Infection
Volume	81
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2020.07.015
State	Published - Sep 2020

UN SDGs

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

COVID-19
Face masks
Lockdown
Low- and middle-income countries
Prevention
World Health Organization

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Siewe Fodjo, J. N., Pengpid, S., Villela, E. F. D. M., Van Thang, V., Ahmed, M., Ditekemena, J., Crespo, B. V., Wanyenze, R. K., Dula, J., Watanabe, T., Delgado-Ratto, C., Driessche, K. V., Van den Bergh, R., & Colebunders, R. (2020). Mass masking as a way to contain COVID-19 and exit lockdown in low- and middle-income countries. Journal of Infection, 81(3), e1-e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2020.07.015

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Mass masking as a way to contain COVID-19 and exit lockdown in low- and middle-income countries

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