COVID-19 in the least developed, fragile, and conflict-affected countries — How can the most vulnerable be protected?

Conflict in least-developed countries: challenging the Millennium Development Goals.

Five years before the 2015 deadline for achieving the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the picture on progress is mixed. Persisting challenges include dysfunctional health systems, gaps in reliable morbidity and mortality data, uneven progress between goals and growing inequity between subpopulations. Jan Vandemoortele, one of the architects of the MDGs, emphasizes that the ...

Outbreak prediction of covid-19 in most susceptible countries

Origin of the coronavirus was the seafood market of Wuhan city, Hubei province in China. The cases of someone suffering from COVID-19 can be traced back to the end of December 2019 in China. This is the most infectious disease and spread worldwide within three months after the first case reported. The World Health Organization renames Coronavirus as COVID-19. COVID-19 is the β-Coronavirus famil...

A Public Health Paradox: The Women Most Vulnerable to Malaria Are the Least Protected

Raquel Gonzalez and colleagues highlight an urgent need to evaluate antimalarials that can be safely administered to HIV-infected pregnant women on antiretroviral treatment and cotrimoxazole prophylaxis.

What Can Be Learned from the History of Developed Countries?

Exposed and Trapped: How COVID-19 is Deepening Multidimensional Poverty for Vulnerable Populations

This letter describes the results of the authors' investigations and conclusions regarding the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the multidimensional poverty of vulnerable populations.