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cord-304157-u0mlee6u	Nyasulu, Juliet	The effects of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on the South African health system: A call to maintain essential health services	2020-07-22		.txt	text/plain	4420	241	47	Our approach advocates for close collaboration between essential services and COVID-19 teams to identify priorities, restructure essential services to accommodate physical distancing, promote task shifting at primary level, optimise the use of mobile/web-based technologies for service delivery/training/monitoring and involve private sector and non-health departments to increase management capacity. Our approach advocates for close collaboration between essential services and COVID-19 teams to identify priorities, restructure essential services to accommodate physical distancing, promote task shifting at primary level, optimise the use of mobile/web-based technologies for service delivery/training/monitoring and involve private sector and nonhealth departments to increase management capacity. 18, 19 This article looks at the possible effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the South African health system and proposes possible solutions to maintain the delivery of essential health services whilst fighting the pandemic, with a specific focus on HIV and EPI. Using the documented existing service delivery gaps, we analysed EPI and HIV programmes as examples of priority essential health services to be maintained by South Africa during this emergency period.	./cache/cord-304157-u0mlee6u.txt	./txt/cord-304157-u0mlee6u.txt