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Renewed malaria push needed after COVID-19 setback

Syriacus Buguzi New approaches are needed to tackle malaria after disruption caused by COVID-19 led to an additional 13 million infections and 63,000 deaths from the mosquito-borne disease, say global health leaders. The World Malaria Report released by the World Health Organization (WHO)

COVID-19 worsens global learning crisis, risking $21 trillion in lifetime earnings

70 per cent of 10-year-olds in ‘learning poverty’, unable to read and understand a simple text As a result of the worst shock to education and learning in recorded history, learning poverty has increased by a third in low- and middle-income countries, with an estimated 70 per cent of 10-

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Bottled water sales rose globally as pandemic took hold

Fiona Broom Families in some of the poorest parts of the world turned to buying bottled water as the pandemic sent countries into lockdown, with larger chunks of incomes being spent on drinking water, SciDev.Net analysis shows. Lack of access to safe water or adequate infrastructure, coupled with he

Latest IPCC report says human induced climate catastrophe is destroying both humans and nature

Climate crisis has exposed millions of people to acute food and water insecurity, especially in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, on Small Islands and in the Arctic. Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions of pe

Taliban ban on jabs may trigger COVID-19 spike

Ranjit Devraj Given the Taliban’s hostility to vaccinations, WHO and medical experts fear a rapid and uncontrolled spread of COVID-19 in Afghanistan will await the formation of a new government led by the ‘Islamic Scholars’. The WHO recorded 152,411 confirmed cases of COVID

World’s stateless at risk of not having COVID vaccine

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning that many of the world’s stateless people may miss out on vaccinations as a result of their lack of citizenship or proof of identity. “There are millions known to be stateless around the world, without the nationality of any state. This has hugely damagin

Watchdog Shines Light on Big Pharma’s ‘Fierce’ EU Lobbying Campaign Against Vaccine Patent Waiver

Jake Johnson The public is being left in the dark as to the demands, influencing strategies, and full firepower of the Big Pharma lobby at a time when the debate over who gets to keep monopoly control of Covid-19 patents is raging To preserve its stranglehold over global vaccine production, the phar

About 155 million people pushed into food insecurity in 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the fragility of the global food system and the need for more equitable, sustainable and resilient systems to nutritiously and consistently feed 8.5 billion people by 2030. Conflict, economic shocks – including due to COVID-19, extreme weather – pushed at leas

Media’s failure in contending with second COVID-19 wave has left Indians paying the price

The systemic lapses that exacerbated the scale of the second COVID-19 wave would arguably not have happened in a country with a freer media that was doing the job it is meant to do. The second COVID-19 wave is a tragedy on an epic scale playing out in India. The Asian tsunami of 2004 kill

Plotting a green Covid recovery: How the EU, US and China stack up

Sam Morgan Covid-19’s impact on the world economy has prompted Brussels, Washington and Beijing to invest in bumper stimulus plans to help ride out the pandemic. How do their efforts compare? European countries are currently putting the final touches to their recovery plans, which they will submit

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