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Rally for the right to abortion in the Plaza de Colon, Madrid, Spain, urging all EU member states to decriminalize abortion as the practice is severely restricted in some EU countries. Photo By Ricardo Rubio/Europa Press via Getty Images.

InternacionalSalud Pública

Although existing health system vulnerabilities were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, several of the obstacles to fair, healthy, and prosperous societies are a result of structural and persistent inequalities both within and between countries.

Because of the urgent need to provide COVID-19 health services, the treatment and prevention efforts for several non-communicable diseases – which kill more than 40 million people each year – have been negatively affected.

This ongoing inability to undertake routine health services alongside outbreak response surge capacity reflects the gaps in pandemic preparedness which have long been identified – and ignored.

Lockdowns and travel restrictions mean limited access to health services, affecting diagnosis and lifesaving treatments across the world and communicable disease programmes, especially in low- and middle-income countries, have experienced setbacks counteracting decades of gains.…  Seguir leyendo »

Six Aspects of Daily Life Rapidly Changed by COVID-19

InternacionalSalud Pública,

When the pandemic struck, many countries were quick to close their borders, turning inward in the scramble to protect lives and livelihoods. Sadly, the crisis has done little to bond nations against this shared, invisible foe – in some cases, blame for the outbreak and rows over responses actually exacerbating geopolitical tensions.

However, some effects of COVID-19 may yet unite us, in the profound ways the disease has impacted almost every part of life across the planet, giving us a rare opportunity to pause and consider how we live. News of an effective vaccine makes the prospect of a ‘return to normality’ more hopeful but have these dramatic accelerations in existing trends already changed how we travel, work, and consume, and the face of our cities for good?…  Seguir leyendo »

Truck drivers wait to be tested for COVID-19 on the road to enter Uganda in Malaba, a city containing the border with Kenya. Photo by BRIAN ONGORO/AFP via Getty Images.

MundoÁfrica, ,

Two opposing narratives have emerged about COVID-19 and Africa. The first is that cases are doubling, infections are increasing, and an uncontrollable swell of COVID-19 cases and deaths will soon overtake healthcare systems across the continent.

The other says that the epidemic in Africa may actually be subdued and that the continent has likely avoided catastrophe due to early action to prevent imported cases, as well as a young population.

A new modelling study from the WHO Africa Regional Office predicts the truth is likely somewhere in the middle. This new study estimates 47 African countries will not have as many severe cases or deaths as the rest of the world, but these countries should still expect 190,000 deaths and five million additional hospitalizations within this first year.…  Seguir leyendo »