The pandemic has impacted healthcare services such a maternal health services
Covid-19 has driven a wider gap in young people accessing school
When predicting the second Covid-19 wave, South Africa’s leading Covid-19 Scientist Prof Salim Abdool Karim says that he did not consider two factors, the end of year parties by university students and school pupils and the emergence of the variant discovered in South Africa.
Abdool Karim was speaking at the Accelerating Achievement for Africa’s Adolescents Hub’s webinar to discuss Covid-19 and adolescents on Thursday afternoon.
Other speakers included Dr Priscilla Idele, the Deputy Director of the UNICEF’s Office of Research-Innocenti in Italy, and Professor Lucie Cluver from the University of Oxford.
This week, the world will commemorate the first-ever International Day of Human Fraternity. Health comes under the spotlight, with a focus on eradicating cancer as well as female genital mutilation globally by 2030. In Cape Town and Pretoria, health activists deliver demands to embassies on the TRIPS waiver. And health experts discuss the impact of Covid-19 on adolescents.
This week the world will commemorate the International Day of Human Fraternity for the first time. The 4 February occasion will give focus to initiatives to promote interreligious and intercultural dialogue to enhance peace and respect, as exemplified by the meeting of Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmad al-Tayyib, on 4 February 2019 to sign the document “Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together”. This inspired the date.