"In response to the timely editorial by The Lancet Global Health reflecting on the ongoing colonisation of medicine, economics, and politics, we highlight an important mechanism through which the COVID-19 pandemic is allowing external agencies to gain more control over the health-care financing in low-income countries. There is currently unprecedented political momentum for low-income countries to achieve essential reforms by investing 1–2% of their gross domestic product from 2021 to 2023 towards building universal, publicly financed health systems that cover their entire populations. However, external debt repayments that are currently being negotiated are threatening this opportunity to realise universal health coverage (UHC), and will weaken the health systems in many countries."

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30253-9/fulltext

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Months into the coronavirus pandemic, scientists have identified some clear patterns in which people who suffer from Covid-19 are most likely to die. Pre-existing medical conditions are one important factor. As of June 3, roughly nine in ten New Yorkers and Chicagoans who died of Covid-19 suffered from underlying chronic conditions. But those underlying conditions don’t affect everyone equally. They are much more prevalent among lower-income workers, according to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/04/opinion/coronavirus-health-race-inequality.html