The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation released its 2020 Goalkeepers report, meant to measure progress on development goals, on Monday.
The number of humans subsisting on less than $1.90 a day has slowly, but surely, been inching downward year after year. Until now.
"Every single one of the goals was moving in the right direction," Gates said on the call, which replaced what's normally a star-studded in-person event."The pandemic has, in almost every dimension, made inequity worse."Story continues"We have to confront the current reality with candor," the report said."We've regressed.
The number of people living on less than $1.90 a day, the international benchmark for extreme poverty, is climbing in lockstep with the virus' spread. According to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation , 25 years of progress to get the world vaccinated against deadly diseases was just swiftly wiped out in 25 weeks.
Girls who left school during the pandemic may never returnTaking kids out of school during the pandemic has no doubt spared some lives, but it's also put many students behind, and the Goalkeepers report projects that some pupils will never regain what's been lost.Being home from school can also be dangerous, putting girls at especially higher risk of both physical and sexual abuse .
Gates says there are"direct" and"selfish" reasons that every country should want to invest in such collaboration and support the building of factories for vaccine manufacturing worldwide.
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