covid-19

Learning from Covid: Can we re-use resources for teaching online?

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Digital classrooms and resources for teaching online have become essential during the pandemic. Some schools have even provided students with tablets, laptops and digital platforms to help out. Covid-19 not only took millions of lives but strained many key sectors, including education. 185 million students around the world have had courses disrupted, lost loved ones […]

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Coronavirus, Society, Technology

Child labour during the COVID-19 pandemic: An outcome of rising poverty

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It is well known that COVID-19 has fuelled global poverty. Lockdown measures have caused massive job losses, devastated economies, fewer investments and exports, and a decline in tourism. Developing countries are often more vulnerable to the extreme economic and social consequences of COVID-19. Many of these countries already struggle with persistent social and economic inequalities,

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Business, Coronavirus, Health, Society

Poverty and COVID-19: Pandemic within a pandemic.

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COVID-19 became officially a pandemic on the 11th of March 2020. Nobody then could have guessed its long-term socio-economic impacts. Like all global disasters, the pandemic hurt low income and vulnerable communities the most. Let’s explore the link between poverty and the pandemic. Globally, the virus has been deadlier and more transmissible among low-income communities.

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Coronavirus, Government, Health, Society, Strategy

Wildlife Trafficking: How it affects Covid19 and other zoonotic diseases

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Poaching and Illegal Trafficking  The term ‘poaching’ refers to the illegal killing, capturing, shooting, or trapping of wild animals, and the corresponding system of global trafficking (Conrad, 2012). Such trading of illegal wildlife is approximated to generate between seven and twenty billion USD annually (Sosnowski & Petrossian, 2020). Furthermore, these processes have existed as high-priority

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Coronavirus, Health, Sustainability
Sick looking children in slum setting with sanitation issues

Poor sanitation and the related burden of diseases

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It’s been more than 20 years since we observed the turn of the millennium. Yet, there still remains an unacceptable level of unresolved issues from the past. Access to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) is still heavily compromised in many parts of the world. Whilst this article’s main focus is poor sanitation, it also relates

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Coronavirus, Government, Health, Science, Society, Sustainability
COVID vaccination progress equitable THRIVE

Global COVID vaccination: Can the world do better?

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What do we know about the progress of the COVID vaccination globally? What countries are doing well and who is struggling? Where has the COVID vaccine been rolled out? Almost 50 million vaccines worldwide have been administered each month since the first vaccine was approved late last year. That is a lot of vaccines, but

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Coronavirus, Health, Society, Sustainability
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