The relationship between poverty and the infection and case-fatality rates of COVID-19 has emerged as a controversial but understudied topic. In previous studies and reports from the UK and US evidence emerged that poverty-related indicators had a significant statistical effect on case and mortality...
The Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) conducted a study on how sex workers are impacted by Covid-19 pandemic. This study focused specifically on Asia–Pacific, Latin American, and African regions of the world. Different aspects were examined in the survey related to the accessibility ...
To select studies to include in our sample, we conducted an internal search within Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), the International Growth Center (IGC) and the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) for projects with plans to collect survey data in the second half of 2020. Study investigato...
The COVID-19 is impacting the health of the population, including older persons. Available evidence shows that older people are highly vulnerable and more likely to have adverse health outcomes. In Bangladesh, the older population is rapidly increasing, living with various disadvantaged socio-economic...
“There's a massive overlap between digital exclusion and social exclusion, and then social exclusion and poverty, and poverty and health inequalities.” The lockdown strategies in the UK prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic are actually increasing digital inequality, according to Kira Allmann, ...
UK Records 1,508 Daily Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Patient Hitesh Patel talks to doctor Jasmine Gan on a COVID-19 recovery ward at Wexham Park Hospital near Slough, Britain, May 22, 2020. Picture taken May 22, 2020. Steve Parsons/Pool via REUTERS LONDON (Reuter...
To this end, people in the low-mobility group (e.g. elderly, people with physical disabilities, and people living in poverty) were disadvantaged because they often had poor internet access (Ho, 2020). This suggests that effective risk communication to the public and government preparedness for ...
Infect Dis Poverty (2021) 10:10 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-00784-2 EDITORIAL Open Access The new COVID‑19 poor and the neglected tropical diseases resurgence Peter J. Hotez1,2,3,4,5,6*, Alan Fenwick7* and David Molyneux8* More than 100 million people are...
UK Extends COVID-19 Self-Isolation to 10 Days From 7 More LONDON (Reuters) - Anyone who tests positive or shows symptoms of COVID-19 in Britain will have to self-isolate for 10 days instead of the previous seven, based on a low but tangible possibility that people could remain infectious...
19 pandemic in the USA adds to the replicability of bias against racial minorities. A significant majority of data from the COVID-19 Supertracker from Oxford University (https://supertracker.spi.ox.ac.uk/) are from developed countries where resources and infrastructure are readily available. Due...