Advancing Global Health Equity in the COVID-19 Response: Beyond Solidarity.
Stephanie B JohnsonPublished in: Journal of bioethical inquiry (2020)
In the coming weeks and months SARS-CoV-2 may ravage countries with weak health systems and populations disproportionately affected by HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and other infectious diseases. Without safeguards and proper attention to global health equity and justice, the effects of this pandemic are likely to exacerbate existing health and socio-economic inequalities. This paper argues that achieving global health equity in the context of COVID-19 will require that notions of reciprocity and relational equity are introduced to the response.
Keyphrases
- global health
- sars cov
- public health
- coronavirus disease
- infectious diseases
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- healthcare
- hiv aids
- antiretroviral therapy
- hepatitis c virus
- hiv positive
- hiv infected
- human immunodeficiency virus
- mental health
- working memory
- hiv testing
- health information
- risk assessment
- men who have sex with men
- south africa
- climate change
- adverse drug
- genetic diversity