A new initiative wants to change that also in the show spanish researchers focusing on concepts for dealing with long cove it while self help groups foster the development of new therapeutic approaches. But 1st, we go to uganda, where the pandemic has led to increased poverty and hunger. And the number of malnourished children is rising at an alarming bite. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Davis true . Yes, and good is severely malnourished. His mother says the trouble started when the one year old was unable to breastfeed. Owe to her mother, i ran out of breastmilk and started fading my child, cassandra porridge. Luckily our cow gave birth around that time. So then i used her milk. Unfortunately the cal died and thats when my boys condition started to deteriorate. Here at the fort portal hospital in western uganda, doctors are seeing a rise in cases of severe malnutrition. As a result, a lot of children are not growing properly. Insufficient nourishment at a crucial early age can also lead to impaired Mental Development and increased susceptibility to illness. The doctors blame, rising poverty in the wake of the coven 19 pandemic. And the truth is, if youre poor, then it means youre very unlikely to eat a sufficient amount of food. And then it means youre likely to become malnourished. So out of the 1000000. 00 plus people who are extremely poor, the majority to live in developing countries like always. So with the onset of calvin and the look dawns on the loss of jobs, the loss of livelihood. I believe that you know, more and more people are going to become poor. On even severely malnourished. Beatrice cook gonzo used to work as a vendor at a roadside market until the locked down rendered her out of a job. The single mother now struggles to feed her 4 children dead though. When i lost my income, the situation with my family got worse. I could no longer afford sugar or so for my family love, im in this and when the kids fell, ill think id already lost my livelihood. Well, what i see in the case of nutritionist, bernard wan barlow. The pandemic hampered his efforts to help people in need with crucial advice dont doing a lot down. He was unable to visit families because of that he had to use radio in order to reach local communities about him and give them pivots on which nutrient rich plants they can grow best. So that men of our households and toll, we produce food. But for market, just to meet other needs of the household. If it comes to live in aden pandemic, people didnt have a lot of things. People were planning to take children back to school and the money was in there. So if you have your whole echo of banana or rubinez or whatever the priority was, how do i take my children to school . So they sell everything and take their children to school to mit, other costs of living according to official figures, stunted growth affects one in every 3 children in uganda. Chronic hunger means that a child is not eating enough of the right kind of food for regular development. The United Nations childrens fond unicef says that severely malnourished children are 11 times likelier than their healthy peers to die from common illnesses. Best way to us, the latest is to ensure that policies are how get towards the poor through social Protection Measures that government need to consider and, and targeted for them to have access to quality died that are needed. Russo new to make sure that the Health System are responsive enough to intrusion on nice personally to make sure that the Education System is latricia and sensitive aims that do not just apply to uganda. In a range of countries, the pandemic has worsened food shortages, leaving a lot of people suffering from severe acute malnutrition. In uganda, their proportion of the population is 20 percent higher than the global average. Ah, mansions to girls, as little boy may be in safe hands, those of the doctors. But she remains worried, not just for her youngest child health, but also that of the entire family back home. Proper nutrition is also the focus of our next report. More than 3000000 people in columbia have diabetes, but a change and diet and exercise, and often help prevent the conditions endangering the life of the sufferer. Isabelle, christiana, life will never be the same. While making breakfast, she has to check each ingredient. She is diabetic, and had to spend 25. 00 days in the intensive care unit after catching cove at 19 bukosa sakura. Today, portia main get died. Elaine jenkins, me with lots of antibiotics. Yog deviate white trim, many in new york. It gave me pulmonary 5 very sissy and 2 blood cuts in my legs. I had to learn to walk again. Like her baby, long months of recovery followed, isabel christiano took part in a Training Program organized by the diabetes voices columbia foundation. She believes the classes changed her life. Me the key is to send me nadia game was come out for me. Just the seminars weve been taking have lifted a veil of darkness in fulton. Well think theyve been a catalyst for us. Yes. And see what we needed them in order to get started on my the side that way could be re ballade. Oh, almost. But id be sad, i would bid i got a message then will at the free workshops, patients receive information about the disease as well as ways to improve their health by changing their eating habits and getting expert advice. It is almost when already had a 15 seminars, an impact to the almost 1500 colombian families who live with diabetes in boys care given that impatient lane. Its a 15 day process with you study 2 hours a night from monday to friday, which is in this audience. The workshops fill a void left by the Colombian Health care system, where consultations with doctors are often too short. This is when im not asking these program, hes trained the patients and their families about the disease. What complications that brings with what the different trait went therapy saw your and something that is very important to me that non pharmacological treatment. Yes. We as doctors establish a treatment, oklahoma for example, insulin injections garcia horn is bad, but 80 percent of the trait when is not a pharmacological, she is already, patients have to exercise and follow a nutritional plan at home. Any he sees you in plan would please, you know, the training brings participants in a contact with some well known people, such as chef daniel riveras, who changed his own habits to avoid going through what his father experienced. No rational confusion alive, couldnt they see it . They are, my dad was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at the age of 47 and quite he passed away about 5 years ago or due to complications with the disease. My family had to watch was his body degenerated, which was caused by the disease that he made a film been quit for many people. Aha, diabetes is only about not eating sugar on our premier. And if you dont have sugar on local medicine, youre fine. Simply quando nicole muscle credit. The diabetes is a disease that eats away at the body in her little by little overseas rossi cuz he couldnt come into a cold medicine. Equitable booker book, daniel riveras prepares recipes to help both patients and caregivers. Theyre made with traditional ingredients and are very affordable noali thing on you dont be afraid of diabetes enough. You dont have to lock yourself away. You can still be active. Many people have diabetes in columbia and around the world through the foundation and their programs. People meet many others in the same situation that theyre very supportive. If they realize that youre not alone. C fleming, thats the message i want to get out there. Hold on one second, the fence hotels may hold me. Look at it. The sad story helps inspire participants. Following his advice, Isabel Christiana was able to lose almost 20 kilos. Youre danielle, ye sincerely. Dont be discouraged anyway. You always have to mad fall one day and not lay side of your love of life. I labels than was that be isab. Christiana was walking again. Shes recover completely from her time at the hospital. The Training Course has taught her that through lived experience of diabetes and coven 19 life can sometimes give you a 2nd chance. Do you have questions about covered 19 . Are science correspondent Derek Williams . Has the answer is, based on the latest research and analysis. Send an email to co producer at d w dot com this week d, w viewer r t on wanted to know i just recovered from kelvin 19, but now my girlfriend has it. Can i spend time with her . Am i resistant . First of all, its important to say that every persons immune system more react in different ways to exposure or to repeated exposure to source coby to influenced by factors like a vaccination status and whether youve been infected in the past with what variance and, and how long ago a lot. Depends on a key word in your question. When you say, i just had coven 19. What is just me . Does it mean last week . Does it mean asked month 6 months ago . No one can tell you how long or how strongly you specifically will be protected from reinfection because no one is really average. But that said, researchers are making general predictions based on what we know about how the immune system works. So lets go over that quickly. When youre infected with stars covey to your body soon begins to make huge numbers of antibodies against it. They are why shaped proteins that can disarm the virus. By latching on to it, they can prevent it from docking on to cells and infecting them in the background. As your immune system grows acquainted with the specific features of the virus, it starts making what are called t cells, which can detect and destroy infected body cells before they release the next wave of virus. And it also makes what are called b cells, which retain a memory of the invader and can start churning out antibodies again quickly. During future infections before the virus can gain a foothold, but the system isnt perfect and its normal for levels of anti bodies in your blood to drop within a few months after an infection, im sure b cells can make more, but maybe not fast enough to prevent a re infection entirely. Um. The 2nd issue is the virus has continuously mutated throughout the pandemic. So the longer ago you were infected, the less likely your immune system is to recognise a new variant and react to it effectively. Some of the dominant new alma chron sub variance appear, able to slip past immune defenses pretty fast, and some people and reports of re infections are growing also, and those who were quite recently infected, im a lot of experts agree that most people should still be well protected for at least a month or 2 after an initial infection. But if so, as covey to is like other human corona viruses and theres no reason to think that its not. Then in the long term variance of it could well be able to in fact, most of us again at regular intervals in for many covered 19 as not over once, the initial infection clears up the list of possible long covert symptoms is getting longer, as is the range of Treatment Options as she sharma and Alberto Garcia ortiz, have this report from spain. Helga blanca was a successful artist publishing and is taking books as well as producing artwork. She was on the verge of setting up her own publishing enterprise. When cobit head back in march 2020. She developed a long covert symptoms, which have devastated her career plans. Normally i could do this in one marlene, but i have been with it. Like in the table, maybe 2 weeks. Not be able to work properly. Its very hard. I started leaving him. Is my mouth that you start to like it seems my was my last. I started like like falling in wrong side. It started to heart, my job and my, my mom i was not able to walk. I was and i started also. We meant for like i was very slow to forget things, how good husband, hector adapted his lifestyle in order to look after his wife. While im just waiting for her to to, to get better for me, this is the most important thing. If things is we cannot travel, we cannot go there. We cannot go shopping, we can ok. Its not important. Its estimated that some 15 percent of all people who co cobra in spain have gone on to suffer from long cobit symptoms. Associations have now sprang up across the country, made up of patients. Theyre joining forces to raise medical awareness of their condition and to help each other with practical, as well as emotional support. Maria, actually this is part of an association based in madrid, which is more than 800 members. Our objective mainly is to try to get a investigation in order to know more out about i will to act the organization the to the, to show the public is to do soon to help us. And the nice a i where illness and any social support muddy as long covert symptoms affect her concentration. She has to stop working every 2 hours as she suffers acute headaches and stomach pains. But a physical health was deemed good enough for her to participate in a 3 month study set up by 2 ologist brothers ricardo and hes. Ardmore at their research focuses on exercising involuntary muscular movement. For example, when throwing a ball, the focus is not on the action of throwing, but how the body automatically creates a posture to support that action. A 100 people with long covert can have low muscle tone and almost no capacity for involuntary action. We utilize and work with the language of the body and brother, which means working on the key areas used by the nervous system to speak directly to the muscles. Yet, by from there we try and make the muscles work in the most efficient way possible. And well talk about a few minutes if investment exercises normally focus on voluntary muscular action of others. But we try to stimulate the part of the nervous system that works with involuntary reactions. Im, were now in the 1st floor was one of the most in the class took the elevator because they couldnt manage a flight of stairs. Ok, now they all walk and little before when im going up there, i try, i e, i e. See how it is was working, and i feel better when i finish their society. I think its because say they are the people we say, intact or these. They know that i went bro. Lemme and they know how to help us. The society of general and family medical practitioners is one of 50 institutions currently involved in long cobra, research in spain since 2020, and the 1st wave, some 6000000 people were diagnosed and hospitalized with cobit, with the further 22000000 people being infected. Francisco, jose science martinez, hes one of the doctors involved in the research is that wasnt the doll that one offered him up. Garth, were trying to characterize the types of people who are going to have long covert symptoms in the hope of treating them beforehand. There are a number of e, you studies on this right now. Theres other, so will be able to say that a person has certain characteristics and might develop long cove. It and we can treat them and advanced with everything it is established or not. Its just not godaddy. Theres also another Research Proposal on developing an antivirus treatment item in the mother. Of course, there are series of retro virals that have been used effectively for recovery from regular cove. It in individual cases, yet. Okay. Up us on us. We want to study these people to see if they have a reduce chance of contracting long covered and will say me until there yet. But this could guide us towards using these retro virals for any person who has of it. And he done it in quite good, but will not get that one hopes. This will bring to someone like blanco in the future remains to be seen for now her focus is on just trying to make her tomorrows a little better than her 2 days. I enjoy your love, glean some parks loose suits has like me. Like this one. You did that yell scar. This was quite satisfying. In india, a shortage of medical workers has long been a serious issue. The pandemic has underscore just how dire the situation is, especially in rural areas. But in initiative is trying to close the gap by sending medical personnel where theyre most needed. The village of natal, i and rogers tongue is home to about 1000 people for the buffy code is the only dr. Hill sake. I moved here from far away bank a low, a metropolitan city. She wanted to serve people where its needed the most. But this is a choice. Few urban doctors make in india. I really need doctor that you go and understand until you call before me and i was reading human, taking up medicine and i saw the doctor once i came in and it is very important for me. Will you let me to changing somebodys like, you know, some even one iron tablet is like saving, you know, who does that . You cycle came to this hospital through an initiative called little Rural Hospital Network which started in early 2022. The network is the brainchild of a dr. Herself who was keen to fill a deficit thats depriving millions of people off medical help in india. Specifically, its very sad that 60 percent of our population is in your little india, but only 30 percent of our doctors. Walker, so theres a definite need and go to lind yet 8. Now. Now, just for doctors, what for Health Care Professionals . What rudo Hospital Network has done is built a database which helps Health Care Workers find rural placements. The idea is to bring doctors nurses, medical assistance to villagers like these that otherwise run the danger of becoming medical deserts. This hospital has become an oasis, o saker, and the nurses see they are able to resolve 3 quarters of the communities and medical problems right here. Little as we wait patients file in and out of the hospital all day, nas vasqua, there was no one else wrong now with a new doctor he had or thinks a lot better. Yeah, but the so that what a year they treat as no matter what time of the night or day we come, that they never closed the door on us live as a nickel. And they say every week say cut on her team, was it nearby . Well just check children for fines of my nutrition, and it was in there that measure their weight and height keep record of their growth as well as a wise the mothers on how to reduce the kids addiction to chips and crackers. We are not focusing on just thought, you know how many, but when they share what you see really want to see the outcome. We wont do. Oh, actually, you know good. He wont glad to see the children grow up and they are growing. The hope is that the number of workers will to select the future of federal Health Care Media no longer hangs in the balance. During the corona virus pandemic, many Children World wide have been unable to go to school. But for many young people, attending classes is one of the few chances to escape poverty. In a jacob lay one of the