On World Health Day, PAHO Director calls for equitable pandemic recovery in the Americas
On World Health Day, observed today, Pan American Health Organization Director Carissa F. Etienne said that COVID-19 has exposed inequalities that are barriers to health for far too many people in the Americas and called on leaders to make equity the “force guiding recovery from the pandemic.”
The pandemic is estimated to have driven between 119 and 124 million more people globally into extreme poverty last year.
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