ABSTRACT
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO), Centre for Disease Control (CDC), and other health organizations around the world have coordinated the flow of information and given out preventive directives measures and guidelines to reduce the impact and spread of the disease. Meanwhile, bodies of scientists and researchers around the world are still working ceaselessly to study the virus, mode of transmission mechanisms, and are rapidly developing therapeutic antiviral drugs and vaccines. Thus, the urgent need for the fabrication of biocompatible and biodegradable composite materials as drug delivery vehicles for the efficient loading, targeted delivery, and controlled release of antiviral drugs to the target site is been inspired. Therefore, this review highlights the antimicrobial and antiviral activities of chitosan as well as the potency of a combined therapy via electrostatic/hydrogen bonding encapsulation onto the WHO suggested clinical trial drugs and possible chelation with metal ions to form new improved antiviral compounds as promising agents for targeted drug delivery. © 2020, Turkish Chemical Society. All rights reserved.
ABSTRACT
The global communities have been grappling with health pandemics for months since the outbreak of COVID-19, which has been flagged a global health emergency by World Health Organisation, WHO. While the entire health sector has been overburdened, cancer patients are also at a high risk of getting infected during this COVID-19 pandemic; hence, there is a great concern for these patients because there is little to no data to support their management with the current health care structure in Africa. This article outlines the challenges that frontline health workers face in the management of cancer patients, as the entire health sector calls for effective policy formulation and implementation by the government in their role in ensuring the sound health of their citizenry.
Les communautés mondiales sont aux prises avec des pandémies de santé depuis des mois, depuis l'apparition du COVID-19, qui a été signalé comme une urgence sanitaire mondiale par l'Organisation mondiale de la santé. Alors que l'ensemble du secteur de la santé a été surchargé, les patients atteints de cancer courent également un risque élevé d'être infectés pendant cette pandémie de COVID-19, d'où une grande inquiétude pour ces patients, car il n'existe que peu ou pas de données pour soutenir leur prise en charge avec la structure actuelle des soins de santé en Afrique. Cet article décrit les défis auxquels sont confrontés les travailleurs de la santé de première ligne dans la prise en charge des patients cancéreux, car l'ensemble du secteur de la santé exige une formulation et une mise en Åuvre efficaces des politiques par le gouvernement dans son rôle de garant de la bonne santé de ses citoyens.