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Switzerland is sending a team of experts and water and sanitation equipment to Madagascar, which has been hit by Cyclone Batsirai.

Switzerland is sending a team of experts and water and sanitation equipment to Madagascar, which has been hit by Cyclone Batsirai.

by Martha Reilly, Global Research Institute at W&M |  May 6, 2021 As the Covid-19 pandemic took hold of the world last spring, many nations enacted similar lockdown policies intended to restrict movement and halt transmission — yet some countries fared far better than others.  Newly published research, led by William & Mary undergraduate Morgan Pincombe ‘21, analyzes public health disparities among 113 countries in the wake of the pandemic. The findings indicate that failure to account for different economic realities led...

Subscribe PHOTO: As the impact of the coronavirus pandemic surged, women in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, crowded in a line to get aid. The pandemic caused devastating loss of income and food insecurity in Bangladesh and eight other countries in the global south, according to new research co-authored at the University of California, Berkeley. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year led to a devastating loss of jobs and income across the global south, threatening hundreds of millions of people with hunger and lost savings and raising an array of risks for children, according to new r...