Reported health and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable populations and implemented solutions in six West African countries: A media content analysis

• Khalida Saalim,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  ⨯
• Kwame S. Sakyi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Public and Environmental Wellness, Oakland University School of Health Sciences, Rochester, Michigan, United States of America, Center for Learning and Childhood Development, Accra, Ghana

  ⨯
• Fatema-Tuz-Zohra,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Learning and Childhood Development, Accra, Ghana

  ⨯
• Emily Morrison,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

  ⨯
• Prince Owusu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Learning and Childhood Development, Accra, Ghana

  ⨯
• Sarah L. Dalglish,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Institute for Global Health, University College London, United Kingdom

  ⨯
• Mufaro Kanyangarara

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mufaro@mailbox.sc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1367-1546

  ⨯