Rising to the challenges and opportunities
of a once-in-a-century pandemic
We have ten years to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—humanity’s blueprint for a
sustainable and just future—and COVID-19 is a formidable roadblock.
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Peru / Monica
Suarez
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Aurélia Rusek
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Sri Lanka
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people are expected to be pushed back into
extreme poverty in 2020.
And its effects are spilling over onto the efforts to treat other diseases.
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Angola / Cynthia R. Matonhodze
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Angola / Cynthia R. Matonhodze
It has seriously affected the AIDS response and
could disrupt it more.
A recent survey by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria found that 85 percent of
HIV programmes in 106 countries reported
disruptions . And sex workers, transgender men
and women, people who use drugs and gay men
have lost livelihoods, faced violence, and often are
scapegoated as the transmitters of COVID-19.
The Global Fund has made up to US$1 billion available to help fight
coronavirus, but HIV and tuberculosis resources are being repurposed for
the pandemic.
A rapid assessment in India
indicated an almost
in daily tuberculosis notifications in April.
Chapter 02
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Iraq / Abdullah Dhiaa Al-Deen
