A call to protect vulnerable populations from COVID-19
Organisations. World Health Organization WHO
Period. 30 May - 10 June 2020
The WHO and UNHCR signed an agreement to strengthen partnerships and operational capacities that focus on improving access to health services for some 70 million forcibly displaced people around the world from COVID-19. The poorest countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are facing pandemic-induced economic and public-health emergencies that demand immediate action. G20 leaders therefore must agree now on measures to prevent the current recession from deepening, and to mitigate its impact on the world’s most vulnerable people. We are at a critical moment, because the poorest countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are facing economic and public-health emergencies that demand immediate action.
The Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) – two of the world’s leading medical journals – issued “Expressions of Concern”
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