17.03.2020

The Corona Virus Epidemic in the Global South. By Andreas Wulf

Forgotten victims

medico international Deutschland "Why are disease outbreaks and health problems only of global interest when they affect the countries and transport routes relevant to the global economy, such as the current corona virus outbreak? Or are they simply better perceived there? In any case, the last few weeks have made it clear: The much-touted "global community" is prepared to invest much more in fighting them than it did in the case of an acute measles outbreak in 2019, which killed over six thousand people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, or the Ebola outbreak, which has not been stopped in the same country for a year and a half now, killing 2,250 people." (Photo: Nurse at Redemption Hospital washes her hands/World Bank Photo Collection/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)