Global groups propose pandemic plan costing $US10 billion a year
Chicago, US Reuters It will take $US15 billion in grants this year and another $US10 billion annually after that to establish and maintain an adequate toolkit to respond to COVID-19 and address future pandemic threats, according to four organisations focused on global health and the economy. The estimate is laid out in “A Global Strategy […]
“Further off track”: NGOs scramble to dampen COVID-19’s impact on people living with HIV
BENJAMIN RYAN and KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how those involved in the fight against HIV are battling to maintain services during the coronavirus pandemic…
COVID-19 disruption causing many deaths from TB, AIDS in poorest countries, fund says
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Hundreds of thousands of people will die of tuberculosis left untreated because of disruption to healthcare systems in poor countries caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a global aid fund said. In a few of the world’s poorest countries, excess deaths from AIDS and tuberculosis could even exceed those from the coronavirus itself, said […]