Aid
Hollowed-Out US Public Health System Faces More Cuts Amid Virus
Lauren Weber and Laura Ungar and Michelle R. Smith, The Associated Press and Hannah Recht and Anna Maria Barry-Jester The US public health system […]
Category: Disasters
Aid
27 countries heading for COVID-19-driven food crises
No world region is immune, from Afghanistan and Bangladesh in Asia, to Haiti, Venezuela and Central America, to Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria in […]
Aid
Fossil fuels rank high in G20’s Covid-19 recovery plans
Fermín Koop G20 governments have allocated at least US$151 billion to fossil fuels since the pandemic started, largely overlooking renewables Most of the world’s […]
Aid
Reforms key to NGOs weathering Coronavirus financial crisis
Casey Kelso True internal change will be tested soon as NGOs face potential massive layoffs. Well-managed NGOs are more likely to survive, while those […]
Aid
COVID brings Unprecedented Global Education Emergency
Almost 10 Million Children May Never Return to School Following COVID-19 Lockdown Deep budget cuts to education and rising poverty caused by the COVID-19 […]
COVID-19
As pandemic strips away accumulated inertia of decades, ‘After Coronavirus’ may be a whole brave new world
The coronavirus pandemic, like the World Wars, is a harbinger of revolutionary changes. It is accelerating the destruction of the old, and hastening the […]
Aid
Access to HIV medicines severely impacted by COVID
Seventy-three countries have warned that they are at risk of stock-outs of antiretroviral (ARV) medicines as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to […]
COVID-19
‘Completely Out of Control’: China Says ‘US Epidemic’ Threat to Rest of the World
In the coming fall and winter, the US epidemic will likely run rampant, and more countries and regions will be forced to suffer because […]
Biodiversity
Covid-19, Climate Change, Poverty and Corruption: Quest for Nature Friendly Lives and Livelihoods
The unique nature of Covid-19 crisis have been blessings to build lives and nature friendly green planet. Strategic policy responses should be designed internalizing […]
COVID-19
Recover Better With Nature: Personhood Rights to Rivers can help
It is now clear that when humans shut down, rivers flow healthy. The evidences that we have gathered during the Covid19 lockdown should be […]
COVID-19
Drinking Surged During The Pandemic in US. Do You Know The Signs Of Addiction?
Alex Smith Retail alcohol sales jumped by 55% nationally during the third week of March, when many stay-at-home orders were put in place Despite […]
Sustainable Business
Reusable Plastic safe during COVID Pandemic: Health Experts
Over 125 health experts from 19 countries signed onto a statement assuring retailers and consumers that reusables are safe during COVID-19, pushing back on claims […]