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By H.E. Kersti Kaljulaid, President of the Republic of Estonia; Rt Hon. Helen Clark, PMNCH Board Chair, former Prime Minister of New Zealand; H.E. Jorge Alcocer Varela, Secretary of Health of Mexico; and Hon. Graça Machel, PMNCH former Board Chair and Founder of the Graça Machel Trust
Wherever COVID-19
strikes, it magnifies unfairness and inequality. In every nation and
every community touched by the virus, hard-won progress for women,
newborns and young people is being reversed.
This is not the
work of the disease itself, but of our reaction to it: resources for
essential health care shrink, people fear using health services, and
poverty and hunger grow. The problems are compounded by fragile health
systems and lack of preparation. A recent study in the Lancet
indicates that, in low- and middle-income countries, all these factors
could kill more than a million children and thousands of mothers in the
next six months.
In the past twenty
years, keeping mothers and children alive has been one of the great
public-health success stories. Child death rates have almost halved, and
maternal death rates are down by over a third. Those gains are now
being eroded as inequalities spread, running like fractures along the
lines of age and sex, further fragmented by geography, income,
disability and ethnicity.
Coronavirus and children: 'I can't hug my mum any more'
BBC
Parents who are Covid-19 frontline workers have had to adjust interaction with their own children.
The usual parental hugs and dining together have been put on hold in order to reduce and possible risk of transmission of the virus.
BBC What's New spoke to some of their children and this is what they said.
Producer: Agnes Penda
Edited by Anne Okumu
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