High levels of inequality are making the world more vulnerable to pandemics and the unhealthy cycle between the two must be broken, global leaders have warned.1
A report by world leading public health experts, political leaders, and economists calls for urgent action on multiple fronts to tackle the “social determinants of pandemics” that create underlying vulnerability and enable viruses and bacteria to thrive.
The Global Council on Inequality, AIDS, and Pandemics, an initiative convened by UNAIDS to confront how inequalities and pandemics impact each other, undertook two years of research, evidence reviews, and policy forums around the world to inform the report.
Their research showed that “high inequality, both within and between countries, and global vulnerability to pandemics reinforce each other.”
“This cycle helps explain why remarkable advances …
