Some issues in today’s global health crisis are all too familiar. This article provides eight takeaways from The New Humanitarian’s 25 years of reporting. Read more
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In the absence of a vaccine, the main tool for control of the current pandemic of Covid-19 is human behavioural change. Social scientists are not fully agreed on what determines behavioural change, but there is a broad consensus that individual agency is influenced by social factors. It matters what your family, friends and neighbours think. So why haven’t social factors been more thoroughly scrutinised in the huge upsurge of scientific effort to combat Covid-19? …
Through forecasting the disease burden and comparing intervention strategies, modelling has been a key part of the public policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments across the world have justified implementing policies based on science, data, and information gleaned from these models. However, as we have learned through previous outbreaks, the science of modelling/forecasting an epidemic can be uncertain. Policies adopted by governments due to disease forecasting will have wide-ranging consequences—not only on the epidemic….
This analysis uses laboratory data to examine the COVID-19 infections in South Sudan. Preliminary findings point to the underlying concerns. First, the COVID-19 preventive measures instituted in March are ineffective, with at least 100 new cases of the virus likely to be recorded daily in the coming weeks or even days. Second, the effect of the virus varies by both age and sex of patients. At greater risk of infections are the elderly and women….
The paper will provide an examination and highlights on Government Response to the Corona Virus (COVID-19) Crisis. Critical examination will be on registered success, failure and lesson learned for future management of public health crises in South Sudan. The paper also looks at the gender responses and approaches in managing the virus and finally offers some lessons learned and strategic policy recommendations that help the government to better handle and manage the future of this…
IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) and WHO’s Health Service Functionality (HSF) teams collaborated to produce this joint analysis on health care access for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returnees in South Sudan. The interactive report provides a countrywide summary of gaps in access to functional health facilities by IDPs and returnees. Download
The COVID-19 pandemic marks a turning point in the 21st century – a shock that is characteristic of a long crisis of globalisation where not only opportunities, but risks proliferate rapidly across borders. The emergency has three levels, each of which is unfolding at its own speed: public health (at least two years), economic (five years or more), polarisation and insecurity (a generation). Download
Civilian protection sites created by the United Nations house large numbers of internally displaced people in crowded conditions, making them vulnerable to illness from COVID-19. Advice for residents to go home or physically distance is not only impossible but distracts from more useful measures which, argues Naomi Pendle, must draw on local leadership. Read more
This article argues that while COVID-19 itself fails to discriminate between the poor and the powerful, its effects are mediated by unequitable social structures and economic hierarchies, and that in countries suffering from conflict and hunger, such responses are even likely to entrench class divisions between political elites and the suffering majority. The COVID-19 response in South Sudan is a clear example. Read more
Covid-19 is not the only crisis, and probably not the biggest crisis in the Sahel. But it will likely make a bad situation worse. As the virus spreads, it will do so in a fragile and conflict-afflicted region, inserting itself into already complex and fluid dynamics. As previous pandemics have shown worldwide, policies often prove to be far more influenced by politics, ideology and ignorance rather than evidence and best practices. “Know your pandemic, act…
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