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Fighting for breath: time to invest in oxygen delivery systems in India
It’s estimated better access to medical oxygen could reduce childhood pneumonia-related mortality in India by at least 35%.
Delivering a potential COVID-19 vaccine to the world: understanding the scale of the challenge
If we assume 70% of the world’s people need to be immunised to achieve herd immunity, that means producing vaccines for more than 5 billion people. To put this into context, the global demand for vaccines totalled 3.5 billion doses in 2018.
Being a force for good in the face of global challenges to the protection of civilians
This week, the UN Secretary-General published his annual report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict. It helps countries like the UK understand what’s really happening in key conflicts.
Eating away the Covid-19 pandemic
Written by Webster Makombe Whilst the trending phrases during the Covid-19 pandemic are “social distancing” and “self-isolation”, where I am from we are saying “kusiri kufa ndekupi”. A Shona call of desperation which translated into English means “caught in between a rock and a hard place”. The Covid-19 pandemic has shaken the world into a […]
194 governments unanimously adopt COVID-19 resolution
Winning the global fight against COVID-19 depends on bringing relief to war-weary families
In a camp in Syria a boy told our team, “We’re used to the war now. Even when it hits nearby, we hide in caves. But with this virus, we can’t hide.”
Coronavirus crisis: what are the next steps for children in the UK?
The take-up of our Emergency Grants Scheme gives us some indication of the level of deprivation some families are experiencing during this crisis.
