Health
Cooperation is the way to protect women and children from COVID-19 – Thomson Reuters Foundation
Report shows the health of women and children improving over the past decade, but the climate crisis and the pandemic threaten progress
* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Vivian M. Lopez is Executive Coordinator of Every Woman Every Child, an initiative of the United Nations Secretary-General
Good news first: more than a billion children were vaccinated over the past decade. Maternal deaths declined by 35 per cent since 2000. Deaths of children under five reached an all-time low in 2019, a year when more girls were attending school than ever before.
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