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Ethical challenges in community engagement practices in research during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa

2020-06-11

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Community engagement (CE) has been highlighted as a key process in the prevention and transmission control of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, the nature of the virus and national response strategies such as social distancing have challenged traditional methods of community engagement. In this paper, we discuss the role of community engagement in research during COVID-19. We first set out the case for...

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Literature Corpus work: 16d7ac0e-8b6b-5b84-a146-77f67727fdd1
DOI: 10.12688/aasopenres.13084.1

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