1st International Conference on Public Health in Africa

ABSTRACT

The proceedings contain 98 papers. The topics discussed include COVID-19 clinical presentation and SARS-CoV-2 viral kinetics in people living with HIV;estimation of shedding time in laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Africa, 2020;temporal dynamics of SARS-COV-2 viral load and related antibodies in West African patients the COVADIS cohort;establishing a national SARS-CoV-2 surveillance network across South Africa to support wastewater-based genomic and epidemiological monitoring of the COVID pandemic, 2020-2021;prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies among Kenyan blood donors between June and August 2021;SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence in Sierra Leone, March 2021 a cross-sectional, nationally representative, age-stratified serosurvey;first national household seroprevalence survey of SARS-CoV 2 antibodies in Tunisia, April 2021;and SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence across six states of Nigeria, October 2020 and June 2021.