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cord-327242-g3pfc94x	Nepomnyashchiy, Lyudmila	COVID-19: Africa needs unprecedented attention to strengthen community health systems	2020-07-16		.txt	text/plain	1607	106	57	As the first cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Liberia, in March, 2020, former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 1 among others, 2 highlighted the need to adopt lessons learned from the response to the 2014-16 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in west Africa. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, governments took swift action to institute lockdown measures, activate incident management response systems, and mobilise front-line health workers to be trained. 19 To its credit, Liberia, scarred from the Ebola outbreak, has been training its National Community Health Assistants to prevent, detect, and respond to COVID-19 while maintaining essential services and is in the process of procuring PPE for CHWs. 20 COVID-19 is the new public health backdrop and we cannot wait to strengthen community health systems. Community health workers during the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone Prevent, detect, respond: how community health workers can help in the fight against COVID-19	./cache/cord-327242-g3pfc94x.txt	./txt/cord-327242-g3pfc94x.txt