"COVID-19 has had a negative impact on the lives of people in sub-Saharan Africa, including health care workers and adolescents. While the direct impact of the disease and associated mortality may have been relatively limited, compared to impacts in other regions, the indirect effects on livelihood, food security, nutritional status, education, and medium to long term economic development appear to have been substantial, based on this informative series of surveys by the ARISE network.” – Philip Rosenthal, Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.