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MONTHLY WEBINAR
COVID-19 and intergenerational equity.
10 September 2021
2 to 3.15pm UK time
In partnership with UNICEF Global Development Commons and the Lancet COVID-19 Commission.
The focus of this webinar is to understand how COVID-19 is affecting issues of age and generational equity. We will address ethical issues and concerns about social justice. The event is part of a global conversation to guide policy responses to these dilemma and to promote more consensual approaches to generational justice.
Panelists:
Opening Remarks: Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Lancet COVID-19 Chairman.
Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, Professor of Social Policy and International Development, Norwich, United Kingdom.
Shahra Razavi (Shahrashoub Razavi), Director of the Social Protection Department of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland.
Natalia Winder-Rossi, Director, Programme Division Social Policy and Social Protection, UNICEF.
Staring into a black hole. Data on COVID-19 mortality in India.
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the lack of a comprehensive system of statistics on mortality and cause of death in India.
UK government “experts”, COVID-19 ageism and gerontocide apologists.
The Global Platform focusses specifically on COVID-19 and older people in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). As part of our activity, we have been highly critical about the governments of several LMICs, whose policies sometimes entail implicit or explicit discrimination against their older citizens.
An emergency strategy for managing COVID-19 in long-term care facilities in low and middle-income countries: the CIAT Framework (Version 3*).
There is a broad misperception that there are very few long-term care facilities (LTCFs) in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). In fact, there are large and rapidly growing networks of residential care services for older people in Latin America, many parts of Asia, South Africa and other middle-income settings (Camarano et al, 2010; Cheung Wong and Leung, 2012; Lloyd-Sherlock, 2019).
Caught between different doses. Older people and the geopolitics of vaccine supply in Nepal.
The first wave of COVID-19 hit Nepal back in 2020. As in India and elsewhere in the region, the effects of this first wave were relatively mild. The country is now dealing with a much more severe second wave, driven by the delta variant.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organisation, 5 February 2021.
“There is a disturbing narrative in some countries that it’s OK if older people die. It’s not OK… Those most at risk of severe disease and death from COVID-19, including health workers and older people, must come first. And they must come first everywhere.”
86%
Of reported COVID-19 deaths in Chile since the start of the pandemic have been aged 60 or more.
In Argentina, the average age of deaths attributed to COVID-19 is
74
In Peru, people aged 60 or more account for
70%
of reported COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
From March 2020 to 2021
86%
of Colombia’s 55,000 reported COVID-19 deaths were aged 55+.
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