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By Melissa Papir Kolb, MS, RD | May 06, 2021
As the world inches forward towards a post-COVID era, people are becoming increasingly cognizant of their health. Though vaccines are available and progressive treatments are in hand, people are trying to find ways to prevent and combat both COVID-19 or whatever foreign pathogens come our way. Too many people have learned the hard way that a surprise attack on an unfortified fortress can have devastating consequences. Though a bolstered immune system may not be a panacea, it can definitely help put up a good and effective fight against the myriad pathogens out there, including COVID-19.
IsraAid is a non-profit organisation helping the world s crisis hotspots
A British expat is helping to mastermind the first operation aimed at sharing Israel’s vaccine expertise across the developing world.
And as Tamar Kosky Lazarus directs the aid trip she helped plan from mission control in Tel Aviv, another British-Israeli, epidemiologist Michael Edelstein who recently relocated from London to Israel, is part of the team getting to work in Africa.
Kosky Lazarus, 39, is senior development director at IsraAID, a non-profit organisation that has 350 staff helping in crisis and post-crisis spots. This week it launched what it says will be the first of several vaccine-focused aid operations and sent a team to the small African country of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland).