What was once a gap in accessing global health care is now a crisis

Global health gains that took decades to achieve are now under threat. Within the first 25 weeks of the pandemic, COVID-19 had overturned 25 years of progress.

In 36 lower-income countries, a staggering four million pregnant women have lost access to prenatal care, 82 million children have not received needed treatments for dehydration, and 17 million have missed out on routine immunizations critical to protecting them from deadly diseases, write Dr. Lia Tadesse and Chris Dendys. Photograph courtesy of Results Canada

Opinion

BY CHRIS DENDYS, LIA TADESSE

June 30, 2021

As the aftershocks of COVID-19 reverberate around the world, what was once a gap in health services delivery has turned into a global crisis. And in a world where, all too often, it is women's rights that become the early casualties of any crisis, women and girls are bearing the brunt of the disrupt...

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