Dr Ifeanyi McWilliams Nsofor is a graduate of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Nnamdi Azikiwe University Medical School. He is a Senior New Voices Fellow at the Aspen Institute and a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity at George Washington University (in this capacity, he participates in the global interest groups, seminars and conferences that are run by the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity programme at George Washington University and the Atlantic Institute based in Oxford). In 2016, Ifeanyi was a DAAD Scholar for the Modern Teaching Methods short course at Ludwig-Maximillian University, Munich, Germany. For the past 21 years post-graduation, Ifeanyi has worked with Nigeria’s National Programme on Immunization, Pathfinder International, Nutrition International, TY Danjuma Foundation, EpiAFRIC and Nigeria Health Watch. He consults for different health organisations.
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In Mexico City, COVID-19 has spread in line with existing patterns of spatial segregation and inequalities. While the poorest neighbourhoods have been the hardest hit, many of the wealthiest have seen very few cases, writes
Máximo Ernesto Jaramillo Molina (INDESIG and Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity).
In January, Reuters reported that Mexico had surpassed India in confirmed deaths from COVID-19, giving it the world’s third-highest death toll. In Mexico City, the continent’s second-largest urban centre, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to over 521,000 infections, 124,000 hospitalisations, and 32,000 deaths, according to data from SEDESA (the Ministry of Health of Mexico City) up to 14 February.
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As our friends and institutional partners know, the Nelson Mandela Foundation remains under an interim management structure while an independent investigation is conducted into anonymous allegations of impropriety and misconduct. By any measure this is a difficult time for the Foundation, and we are grateful for the goodwill and encouragement we have been experiencing. The latter has manifested in many ways, arguably most importantly in the collaborative work we have continued to do in the social justice arena.
In recent weeks the focus of our Early Childhood Development (ECD) programme has shifted in response to government’s decision to direct Covid relief funding to the sector. Through 2020 we worked cross-sectorally to identify and capacitate nearly 40 000 unregistered ECD centres around the country to begin the processes which will lead to recognition by the state and eligibility for state subsidies. We are now working with the Department of Social Development and our c