This essay, on how social inequalities shapes the fight against disease, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 22 November 2020, under the headline “There’s a social pathogen stalking the world that’s as deadly as Covid-19”. “What if tropical diseases had as much attention as Covid?”, asked Francine Ntoumi, director of the Congolese Foundation for Medical Research, recently. Ntoumi was really asking two questions. What is happening to all the other diseases that ravage the global south as the world’s attention has […]

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