UN working to avert dual crises as COVID-19 hits hunger hotspots. Leading up to the coronavirus pandemic, more than 820 million people went to bed hungry, including 110 million people who were living in acute food insecurity. Now as some developing countries face a double crisis - hunger and COVID-19 - the United Nations is working to support the most vulnerable.
“As the number of infections in vulnerable countries grows – among populations who are already malnourished, weak and vulnerable to disease – a ‘crisis within a crisis’ could emerge,” said Dominique Burgeon, Director of Emergency and Resilience Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in an interview.
“And that, in a vicious feedback loop, will leave more people weaker and vulnerable to the virus,” he warned... Read more
“As the number of infections in vulnerable countries grows – among populations who are already malnourished, weak and vulnerable to disease – a ‘crisis within a crisis’ could emerge,” said Dominique Burgeon, Director of Emergency and Resilience Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in an interview.
“And that, in a vicious feedback loop, will leave more people weaker and vulnerable to the virus,” he warned... Read more
Policies and Strategies
Countries of the Americas will be able to Jointly Negotiate Public Purchases of Materials to Combat COVID-19. The governments of the 33 countries of the Americas that are part of the Inter-American Network on Government Procurement (INGP) will have access to the Joint Negotiation Mechanism for the purchase of medicines, medical devices, and other goods from the Council of Ministers of Health of Central America (COMISCA), based on the efforts carried out jointly by the Organization of American States (OAS), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and COMISCA itself.
In this way, the countries will have a stronger negotiating position to access better prices and conditions to acquire the materials they need to combat the COVID-19 pandemic... Read more
Coronavirus in the Americas, live: latest news from Covid-19. Ecuador adds 7,529 confirmed cases and 355 deaths from the virus. Colombia asks for international aid to serve almost two million Venezuelan migrants. America records 43% of diagnoses in the world in the last two weeks... Read more
Tools
Visualization of Entrepreneurs Solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean to Tackle the Coronavirus. Explore the interactive map of ideas and innovations in Latin America and the Caribbean to face the consequences of the coronavirus crisis. The ideas come from entrepreneurs in the region and shed light upon possible innovative solutions applicable to the COVID-19 crisis...Read more
COVID-19 Observatory in Latin America and the Caribbean Economic and social impact. The new global scenario in times of COVID-19 makes it necessary to take urgent measures and assess the impacts they will have. ECLAC has built this Observatory to support review and follow-up over the medium and long terms and at the request of CELAC. The Observatory tracks the public policies that the 33 countries of the Latin America and Caribbean region are implementing to limit the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and offers analyses of the economic and social impacts that these policies will have at the national and sectoral levels... Read more
Clinical Management Through COVID-19 Webinar Series Recordings. In this special continuing education video series, designed especially for physicians, nurses and other health care providers, Harvard-affiliated moderators interview experts to discuss the symptoms, risks and precautions regarding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Information on COVID-19 is evolving daily. The views and perspectives shared in these webinars are given based on the information available at the time of the recording... Read more
Apps
Colombia - The Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies (MinTIC) presented a new campaign that seeks to motivate citizens to download the free mobile application CoronApp Colombia, to facilitate virus protection and mitigation protocols in the country... Read more
Peru - The Government of Peru launched an application to disclose relevant information about COVID-19, "Perú en tus manos" (View). Besides, with the aim of making the contracts for the health emergency transparent, the OSCE made a platform available to citizens that allows them to obtain information on purchases of goods and services made (View).
Other countries in the Americas - have also launched their own apps or are in the process of developing one... Read more
Opinion and analysis
Webinar: The Impact of Coronavirus on Latin America's Healthcare System. In this webinar from Global Health Intelligence, Guillaume Corpart—CEO of Global Health Intelligence—is joined by panelists Agustín Zabullanes—Mexico Country Director for Boston Scientific—and Dr. Benjamín Villaseñor, M.D.—Innovation Director for Grupo Diagnóstico... Download presentation here
Why this screenshot of CNBC’s ‘Mad Money’ host Jim Cramer is ‘everything that is wrong with America’. In many ways, last week was one of the darkest stretches in American history. The coronavirus death toll in the U.S. — now topping 23,000 — skyrocketed as families continued to huddle in their homes uncertain of what’s next, while an unthinkable number of more than 16 million people have now filed for unemployment amid an economy grappling with the shutdown.
Yet, somehow, the stock market has managed to push higher... Read more
Recommended Events - Past & Future
The UN and national measures against the Pandemic: Visions from Ecuador, Mexico, Spain, France and Italy. Virtual Conference Cycle Externado University. Tuesday, April 21. 10 a.m. Colombia. Registrations:
empresayderhumanos@uexternado.edu.co
empresayderhumanos@uexternado.edu.co
Happy Pan American Day!
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