News headlines for “Health Issues”, page 253
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.
COVID-19 & Human Health Risks Linked to Wildlife Trade Practices
- Inter Press Service
CAMBRIDGE, UK, May 07 (IPS) - At the time of writing, the COVID-19 pandemic is raging worldwide, causing human mortality and socio-economic disruption on a massive scale and it appears highly likely that profound impacts will continue for many years to come.
Time for the World Bank and IMF to Be the Solution, Not the Problem
- Inter Press Service
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti and BOSTON, May 07 (IPS) - The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have a historic opportunity to help stabilize a world reeling from COVID-19. Doing so will require the institutions to change course and aggressively support poor countries' ability to invest broadly in the government services their populations need.
World’s Poor Hit by Double Jeopardy: a Deadly Virus & a Devastating Debt Burden
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 07 (IPS) - The world's poorer nations, reeling under an unrelenting attack on their fragile economies by the COVID-19 pandemic, have suffered an equally deadly body blow: being buried under heavy debt burdens.
Polio, Measles Outbreaks ‘Inevitable’, Say Vaccine Experts
- Inter Press Service
May 06 (IPS) - Interruptions to vaccination programmes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic could result in new waves of measles or polio outbreaks, health experts warn.
COVID-19: Developing Countries Must Not be Left Behind
- Inter Press Service
WAGENINGEN, Netherlands / ROME, May 05 (IPS) - Globalization has been a driver for increased prosperity world-wide, but it has been in reverse in the last years due to the growth of populism in the USA and Europe. The COVID-19 pandemic may well provide further momentum to increasingly national-interest oriented policies in the west.
Global Impact of New Corona Virus and Population Issues
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, May 05 (IPS) - The new coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to wreak havoc across the world, as the number of infections and deaths rapidly rise. It has the potential to infect anybody regardless of age or gender. There are grave concerns that the economic fallout from COVID-19 may be comparable to that of the Great Depression.
According to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, there are 2,064,668 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 137,124 deaths due to SARS-CoV-2 (the virus causing COVID-19) in Japan, as of April 16th. The PRC reported that as of April 15th, there were 8,100 confirmed cases of COVID-19, 119 deaths, and 901 patients discharged from hospitals.
Financial Scams Rise as Coronavirus Hits Developing Countries
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, May 05 (IPS) - In the Philippines, Peru, India, Kenya, South Africa and many other developing countries, poor people who are already struggling with the health impact of the coronavirus pandemic have been targeted by online fraudsters trying to take unfair advantage of them.
Argentina Responds Boldly to Coronavirus Crisis
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, May 05 (IPS) - Like much of the West, Argentina did not take many early precautionary actions after the Covid-19 epidemic was confirmed in January, but became the first Latin American country to act decisively with a 12 March public health emergency declaration.
The presidential decree came a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic, just over a week after the first case was detected in the republic on 3 March.
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