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Finding Money for Public Health, Green Economic Recovery & SDGs
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, May 12 (IPS) - The coronavirus pandemic underscores the profound fragility and unsustainability of today's world. It exposes the chronic underinvestment in human health and well-being and the consequences of a relentless exploitation of biodiversity and the natural environment.
‘Passing the Buck’ Becomes Reckless ‘Conspiracy Blame Game’
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, May 12 (IPS) - Although Wuhan local authorities undoubtedly ostracized local medical whistle-blowers, notably Dr Li Wenliang, who suspected a new virus was responsible for flu-like infections in Wuhan in late 2019, official responses were apparently not delayed, and possibly even expedited, as the novel character of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for Covid-19 infections, was not immediately self-evident.
Africa’s Health Dilemma: Protecting People from COVID-19 While Four Times as Many Could Die of Malaria
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, May 11 (IPS) - Experts across Africa are warning that as hospitals and health facilities focus on COVID-19, less attention is being given to the management of other deadly diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, which affect millions more people.
NGOs – with Local Groups in the Lead – are on COVID-19 Frontlines
- Inter Press Service
BOSTON, USA, May 11 (IPS) - NGOs, at the international, national - and most of all local - level are on the frontlines every day.
I just heard from Oxfam staff in Bangladesh, that when asked whether they were scared to continue our response with the Rohingya communities in Cox's Bazar, they replied: "They are now my relatives. I care about them — and this is the time they need us most.'"
VE Day Marks the End of the Second World War-But the World is Still at War
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 11 (IPS) - The world commemorated the 75th Anniversary to mark the end of the 2nd World War also called VE Day on 08 May 2020.
With her nation, and much of the world still in lockdown due to COVID 19, England's Queen marked 75 years since the allied victory in Europe with a poignant televised address. From Windsor Castle, Queen Elizabeth said, "the wartime generation knew that the best way to honour those who did not come back from the war, was to ensure that it didn't happen again".
Women Taking Charge during COVID-19
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, May 11 (IPS) - As the COVID-19 mayhem carries on in most countries, the role of mothers, daughters, and female caregivers have been affected the most. Besides looking after the household and home schooling children, they are also working on the front lines, actively or passively caring for their respective communities.
COVID-19: The Digital Divide Grows Wider Amid Global Lockdown
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 08 (IPS) - The digital divide has become more pronounced than ever amid the global coronavirus lockdown, but experts are concerned that in the current circumstances this divide, where over 46 percent of the world's population remain without technology or internet access, could grow wider -- particularly among women.
The Role of Civil Society in Times of Crisis
- Inter Press Service
RAJASMAND, RAJASTHAN, India, May 08 (IPS) - The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has shown us something that most of us haven't seen in our lifetimes: Large numbers of people unable to have two meals a day.
Religion & its Discontents: Considerations Around COVID-19 & Africa
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, May 08 (IPS) - COVID-19 has spread to many nations around the world, and has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. In the global south, the COVID-19 pandemic has stretched the available medical and health resources, triggered economic shocks, and caused social upheavals and insecurity in many countries and localities.
Black Americans are Bearing the Brunt of Coronavirus Recession – This Should Come as no Surprise
- Inter Press Service
May 07 (IPS) - As the COVID-19 pandemic worsened in April, many Americans were shocked by the extent that black Americans were being disproportionately impacted: higher infection rates, more deaths and greater job loss.
But many black Americans were not surprised.
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