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The Telegraph: Almost 10m children may never return to school following the pandemic “Almost 10 million children may never return to school following the coronavirus pandemic due to funding cuts and rising poverty, Save the Children has warned. A ‘hidden education emergency’ is facing the world’s poorest children as a…
Devex: Women and children lose 20% of health, social services to COVID-19 “Globally, women and children are losing access to 20% of their health and social services as a result of COVID-19, according to new findings by senior global health experts commissioned by the United Nations. Approximately 13.5 million children…
BBC: Sudan scraps apostasy law and alcohol ban for non-Muslims (7/12). Devex: The power of choice: Ensuring access to family planning in the COVID-19 era (7/13). Devex: Q&A: How data can stop women from going hungry (Castell, 7/13). IPS: How Senegal Is Providing Reproductive Health Services To Those Who Can…
The Atlantic: The United States Needs a New Foreign Policy William J. Burns, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (7/14). Boston Globe: Politics endanger COVID-19 vaccine Editorial Board (7/14). Financial Times: An airborne virus is a threat worth taking seriously Anjana Ahuja, science commentator at the Financial Times…
Devex: Streamlined malnutrition treatment is effective and less expensive, study shows “Combining severe and moderate acute malnutrition treatments into a simplified protocol is as effective as traditional treatment but costs $123 less per child, according to a new study published in PLOS Medicine. The ‘Combined Protocol for Acute Malnutrition Study,’…
AFRICA New Humanitarian: Kenya’s teen pregnancy crisis: More than COVID-19 is to blame (Wadekar, 7/13). NPR: South Africa Introduces Alcohol Ban And Curfew As Coronavirus Surges (Peralta, 7/13). Reuters: Counting the burials: African nations scramble to track COVID-19 (Paravicini et al., 7/13). Xinhua: Uganda says COVID-19 erodes gains in achieving…
U.N. News: World Population Day: ‘No time to waste’ in empowering women “The COVID-19 pandemic affects everyone, everywhere, ‘but it does not affect everyone equally,’ the U.N. chief said in his message for World Population Day, on Sunday. ‘It is deepening existing inequalities and vulnerabilities, particularly for women and girls,’…
The Atlantic: A New Understanding of Herd Immunity (Hamblin, 7/13). Borgen Magazine: 5 Facts About Aboriginal Children Facing Obesity in Australia (Shusterman, 7/11). Devex: One Health approach could be Australia’s contribution to the COVID-19 response (Cornish, 7/13). New York Times: How Koalas With an STD Could Help Humanity (Gross, 7/13).…
CNN: How to decide who gets the Covid-19 vaccine first Andrew Peterson, assistant professor and Greenwall faculty scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason University (7/10). Devex: COVID-19 calls for disrupting the way we communicate in a crisis Andrew Bredenkamp, board chair of Translators without…
Forbes: Covid-19 Is Making It Harder For Women And Children To Access Vital Health Care Services “Mothers, newborns, young children, and adolescents are losing 20% of their health and social services because of the pandemic, according to a new report from a panel of senior global health experts. ‘Covid-19 is…