Protecting Pregnant Women From Covid-19
Many months into the pandemic, we’re beginning to learn more—and in more detail—about how the Covid-19 is disrupting the health and wellbeing of specific populations. Yet for pregnant women and their unborn children, such information has been inconsistent, inconclusive, and altogether lacking. In late …
Introduction to the COVID-19: Learning Diary from India
ACCESS Health India has developed a learning diary which records India’s response to COVID-19 along with its understanding of the virus. The aim of the diary is to enable tracing of legislative, judicial, and social response to the epidemic at a country …
Introduction to the COVID – 19: Learning Diary from India
In December 2019, an acute respiratory viral infection was first identified in Wuhan city in China. Ever since then the disease has infected over 4.9 million people, killed over 320,000, and brought life to a standstill in several countries.[1] It has forced …
India’s Covid-19 Testing Capacity Must Grow by a Factor of 10: Here’s How that Can Happen
India’s testing capacity for Covid-19 is extremely insufficient to withstand the size of the outbreak. Many experts believe that a tenfold increase in the country’s testing rate is necessary to keep positivity rates below 10 percent, as recommended by the World Health …
India’s Covid-19 Testing Capacity Must Grow by a Factor of 10
The Center for Global Development, in partnership with ACCESS Health India, has recently released a publication on the subject of India’s Covid-19 testing supply chain. Many experts believe that a tenfold increase in the country’s testing rate is necessary to keep positivity …
A Warning From Sweden
Sweden now has among the highest per capita death rates from Covid-19 in the world. Why? The answer is simple. Sweden was lax in its implementation of protective measures in the face of the outbreak, refusing to implement broad stay at home …
The Guardian Features ACCESS Health Chair and President on Preparing for the Second Covid-19 Wave
A group of nine leading scientists who advised President Barack Obama has warned that the US has just three months to rebuild its stockpile of emergency medical equipment if it wants to be prepared for a second wave of coronavirus in the fall. In …
What AIDS Taught Us About Fighting Pandemics
Thirty-five years ago, in the midst of the new and still somewhat unknown AIDS epidemic, I warned in testimony to the US Congress that we were facing another deadly episode in the long battle between humankind and microbes. If asked to testify …
The Private Sector Response to COVID-19 in India
This is the second in a series of blog posts by ACCESS Health India Country Director Dr. Krishna Reddy. Dr. Reddy is a board certified cardiologist with a long and distinguished career, marked by his leadership of the CARE Hospital Group which …
An Urgent Need To Reopen Medical Care For All
A shorter version of this article was originally published in The Hill. Each day in America and in most countries around the world brings with it a new story of crowded hospitals packed with panicked patients and exhausted health workers. But there is …