The immediate health needs of COVID-19 are immense — but that doesn’t mean other health, economic, and societal needs are standing still.<\/p>\n
“There’s a tendency to look at the pandemic in a linear way,” explains ONE CEO Gayle Smith. But by doing that, we miss the fact that it is layered and has a cascading impact on the economy, food security, and the risk of other diseases.<\/p>\n
We gathered three experts to discuss the issues we can’t forget during this pandemic. Here’s what they had to say:<\/p>\n
COVID-19 has disrupted education and jobs, which is particularly devastating for youth in Africa. Even before the pandemic, African youth made up as much as 80% of the total unemployed in some African countries, explains Aya Chebbi, African Union special envoy on youth.<\/p>\n
Here’s her take on the importance of considering African youth in pandemic responses.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Pandemic responses depend on a strong multilateral system — but politics is preventing that right now. “The world should be in revolt about the fact that the leadership by the multilateral system is being damaged by a small number of nations for domestic reasons,” argues David Nabarro, special envoy of the World Health Organization on COVID-19.<\/p>\n
He has a strong call for world leaders, and he wants the world’s citizens to join his call.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Just because we’re in a pandemic does not mean other health risks go away. There could be as many as 500,000 additional deaths from HIV\/AIDS because of the singular focus on COVID and the disruption in supplies, according to the WHO.<\/p>\n
Gayle Smith, CEO of the ONE Campaign, explains what we may be missing during this pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Hear more from Aya, Gayle, David, and more experts on what we cannot forget during COVID-19.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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The immediate health needs of COVID-19 are immense — but that doesn’t mean other health, economic, and societal needs are standing still. “There’s a tendency to look at the pandemic in a linear way,” explains ONE CEO Gayle Smith. But by doing that, we miss the fact that it is layered and has a cascading […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":163091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"topic":[115,58],"contributor":[],"one_content_audience":[],"one_content_type":[],"one_content_tone":[],"class_list":["post-161786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-one","topic-covid-19","topic-health"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n