COVID-19 pandemic continues to devastate women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health in Africa, governments leaders from Nigeria, South Africa, Liberia, Kenya, and Malawi said at today’s Lives in the Balance: Equity in COVID-19 Response and Recovery meeting, more than 1,000 participants from around world.
The two-day Lives in the Balance meeting was organized by PMNCH, together with the CORE Group, the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children, and Adolescents, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Meeting participants including those from civil society, the UN, academia, the private sector and governments, discussed solutions to mitigate the direct and indirect impacts of the pandemic, including concrete and measurable commitments to investment and policy change.