Master in Food Ethics and Law

UNESCO Chair in Bioethics

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  • Bioethics and Law Observatory
  • UNESCO Chair in Bioethics
  • University of Barcelona
  • Faculty of Law
  • Ave. Diagonal, 684
  • 08034 Barcelona
  • (+34) 93 403 45 46
  • obd.ub@ub.edu
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  • Master in Bioethics and Law
  • (+34) 93 403 45 46
  • master.bd@ub.edu

 

"Global health security requires endemic disease eradication"

The Lancet

Global   health   experts   were   quick   to   warn   of   the   potential  negative  impacts  of  COVID-19  on  endemic  disease  programmes.  Modelling  studies  indicated  that  disruptions  to  health  services  and  supply  chains  from  the COVID-19 response could set back efforts to control HIV/AIDS,  tuberculosis,  and  malaria  by  up  to  20  years.3In  a  worst-case  scenario,  malaria  deaths  in  2020  were  projected  to  more  than  double  compared  with  those  in  2019.4