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Inflation in Nigeria is still climbing while it has slowed globally: here’s why

Inflation in Nigeria is still climbing while it has slowed globally: here’s why

JUST as Nigerians were gradually digging out from the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, they were hit by high inflation. The Nigerian economy contracted by 6.1% at the peak of COVID-19 in the second quarter of 2020. Unemployment rate rose from 27% in the second quarter of 2020 to 33% in the fourth quarter of the same year. STEPHEN ONYEIWU, Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College The World Bank estimated that 11 million Nigerians were pushed into poverty during the pandemic, in addition to the 100 million (out of 200 million people in the country) who were already…
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COVID disrupted measles vaccinations in Africa and now cases are surging

COVID disrupted measles vaccinations in Africa and now cases are surging

EDWARD MCALLISTER and JENNIFER RIGBY CLUTCHING an umbrella, medical records and her two-year-old daughter, Kani Fall negotiated the brown puddles lapping at the hospital gate, the final hurdle in a two-hour, rain-soaked journey to her nearest vaccination clinic in the western Gambia. Fall waited with dozens of mothers and babies in the flooded courtyard of Bundung Hospital. Then a doctor emerged with bad news. The hospital had run out of measles vaccines, and it wasn't clear when they would receive more. "They told me there was no vaccine. But I am coming back," said Fall, 27, who had closed her…
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5 ways to tackle ignorance about evidence during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

5 ways to tackle ignorance about evidence during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

Author JOHN N. LAVIS, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Evidence-Informed Health Systems, McMaster University SOME political leaders — the Jair Bolsonaros and Donald Trumps of the world — have given the public the impression that they’re at war with the scientific community. They’ve willfully ignored evidence and trafficked in misinformation in ways that have led to botched pandemic responses and cost the lives of millions. But over the last two years, I’ve come to believe that the Bolsonaro or Trump approach is the exception, not the rule. In most countries, and across the United Nations system, it’s ignorance about…
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