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Despite the successes in treating HIV/AIDS in the United States and other developed countries, it is clear that efforts to combat the pandemic must be scaled up in Africa, Asia, and other parts of the world where HIV/AIDS exacts its greatest toll.
Beyond PandemicsNEW YORK – The World Health Organization has now officially declared the H1N1 flu virus to be a global pandemic.
Beyond this pandemic, there almost certainly lurks another down the road – potentially far more serious.
Yes, the world faces its first influenza pandemic in more than 40 years.
In short, we must remain vigilant and continue actively to manage this pandemic.
At the same time, the pandemic reminds us that we need to think and act beyond it.
During the meeting in Davos, officials will discuss the creation of a new global pandemic emergency facility that would enable countries to respond quickly to crises within their borders by providing them with the needed funds.
To understand how badly the world needs this capacity, one need look no further than the ongoing Ebola pandemic, which has ravaged West African societies, claiming thousands of lives and upending many more.
A global pandemic emergency facility could mobilize public and private resources and frontload financing, so that when a global health emergency arises, funding is in place to support an immediate response at scale.
As the Ebola crisis has demonstrated, passing the hat once a pandemic has taken hold is far too time-consuming and carries huge economic and, more important, human costs.
After all, we do not know when the next pandemic will strike.
In this sense, forward-thinking initiatives like the global pandemic emergency facility are crucial to making the world a safer place for all of us.
The organization’s quick response to the recent Ebola pandemic provides an impressive example of its ability to address global concerns.
The most vulnerable are ill-equipped to fight the pandemic through information gathering, regulatory frameworks, law enforcement, forensics, or health care.
Policymakers dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic should therefore do everything possible to keep markets functioning and private incentives strong.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, therefore, US taxpayers must be encouraged to spend their temporary cash payments from the federal government – including in parts of the economy that are still operating and may grow in the future, such as online sales and remote work.
One hopes we can soon redirect our attention from the urgent need to save lives to the longer-term costs of the pandemic, not least those being borne disproportionately by women.
The pandemic has compounded a longstanding problem for women around the world: large and persistent barriers to participating in the economy and public life on an equal basis with men.
Despite medical research documenting lower COVID-19 mortality for women, many observers have warned that the pandemic is hitting women harder in many other ways.
The pandemic, however, has primarily hit service sectors like hospitality and restaurants, where women account for a larger share of employment.
Worse, scholarly estimates likely understate the true economic impact that the pandemic will have on working women in low-income countries, most of whom are employed in the informal sector (which, by definition, is not adequately captured in official data or surveys).
The gender dimension of the pandemic has received far less attention than its racial and socioeconomic aspects.
The surge in remote work during the pandemic has shown what is possible with today’s technologies, and the challenges faced by many parents during lockdowns have underscored how important basic childcare is for the broader economy.
One silver lining of the pandemic is that it may lead to a real change in attitudes toward housework, parenting, and care for children.
But effecting real change will require a gender perspective on the pandemic that has so far been lacking.
The Fastest Way Out of the PandemicGENEVA – Every day, the COVID-19 pandemic costs the world thousands more lives and billions more dollars.
During the 2009 swine flu pandemic, a few countries cornered the vaccine market, leaving the vast majority of the global population with no vaccine at all until the outbreak was effectively over.
This approach may make business sense, but it does not make sense in the context of a rapidly moving global pandemic.
With the world economy losing more than $10 billion each day, shortening the pandemic by even a few days would more than offset the costs of COVAX.
As Lukashenko proclaimed the pandemic “nonsense” and lied regularly about its scope and casualties, ordinary people affected by the crisis to started to turn on him.
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