GENEVA, April 16 (Xinhua) -- The poor in the United States are being hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic and the U.S. COVID-19 strategy is failing the poor, a UN human rights expert said Thursday. "Low-income and poor people face far higher risks from the coronavirus due to chron...
DAMASCUS, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, some Syrian volunteers in the capital Damascus cook meals during the holy month of Ramadan, not only for the poor people but also for the medical workers spending long hours in the hospitals and medical centers. Known as the Saed T...
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...
The estimated increase in global poverty in 2020 is truly unprecedented. Figure 1 shows the annual change in the number of global extreme poor from 1992 to 2020. Each bar represents the net number of people who have either moved out of extreme poverty if they were poor in the last year or...
particularly those from poor and middle-income nations (Beattie et al.2020). Over 800 out of 1000 participants surveyed in Indonesia indicated a need for mental health and supportive services in the people living with HIV. Therefore, there is an urgent need to improve the health of FSWs (UNAI...
This prioritization scheme was developed with two opposing ethical considerations—one, to reduce infection among workers who were more likely to be poor and people of color and who had also been disproportionately affected by death and infection, and two, to reduce death among those with serious ...
Overall, this study demonstrates that poor people in Africa especially, and Latin America to some extent, cannot afford to follow confinement as much as others because of the hardest choice they face during the pandemic between taking the risk to get infected or falling in extreme poverty. 2. ...
People in the U.S. who live in socially vulnerable neighborhoods, which includes communities with higher rates of poverty, crowded living situations and/or a higher proportion of people from diverse racial and ethnic groups, had higher rates of death and
B COVID-19 has made people think harder about their relationship with nature. It has also raised questions about urban(城市的) lifestyles. The sharing economy(共享经济),working in open offices, living in crowded apartments and the food industry's use of reusable products have made the perfect...
By July 30, 362,000 people in virtually every US nursing home were infected with the virus, representing about 8% of all cases in the country. At least 62,000 nursing home residents died of COVID-19, representing 41% of all COVID-19 deaths nationally. ...