Orphanhood and Caregiver Loss Among Children Based on New Global Excess COVID-19 Death Estimates

Susan Hillis; Joel-Pascal Ntwali N'konzi; William Msemburi; Lucie Cluver; Andrés Villaveces; Seth Flaxman; H Juliette T Unwin

doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.3157

Orphanhood and Caregiver Loss Among Children Based on New Global Excess COVID-19 Death Estimates

JAMA Pediatr. 2022 Nov 1;176(11):1145-1148. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.3157.

Authors

Susan Hillis¹, Joel-Pascal Ntwali N'konzi², William Msemburi³, Lucie Cluver⁴, Andrés Villaveces⁵, Seth Flaxman⁶, H Juliette T Unwin⁷

Affiliations

¹ Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
² African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kigali, Rwanda.
³ Division of Data, Analytics, and Delivery for Impact, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Social Policy and Intervention, Oxford, and Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁵ CDC COVID-19 Response Team, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
⁶ Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
⁷ MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis and the Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics (J-IDEA), School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.

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Plain language summary

This study assesses estimates of new orphanhood based on excess deaths to provide a comprehensive measure of the COVID-19 pandemic’s long-term impact on orphanhood and caregiver loss.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome*
COVID-19*
Caregivers
Child
Foster Home Care
Humans

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MeSH terms

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