Opinion: COVID-19 derails global quest to end tuberculosis cdnpoli (subs)
Health-care workers in Canada have likewise reported that COVID-19 disruptions have resulted in diagnostic delays, large-scale diversions of TB staff to COVID-19 work, and declines in quality of TB care, writes Leigh Raithby.
The health inequities made clear by COVID-19—like the hoarding and accompanied famine of vaccines between wealthy and low-income countries—reinforce a fact that those working and living with neglected diseases like tuberculosis have long known to be true: power relations dictate whose lives are worth saving and whose are not.Enjoy unlimited website access and the digital newspaper.
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