About one million girls in Sub-Saharan Africa may never return to school after getting pregnant due to COVID-19 school closures, a development that could derail Africa’s growth, a report says. The Ibrahim Forum Report highlights the COVID-19-related challenges facing Africa, including an increase in sexual and gender-based violence, strain on already weak health services, rising instability and economic hardship. Alarming cases…
Words of Wisdom in Times of Corona
ICIAM, a founding union of IYBSSD, produced a directory about how mathematics help to fight the COVID-19.
A conference to highlight maths contributions to the fight against COVID-19
A survey of 10 African countries found that a lack of intensive care beds and medical resources led to worse outcomes associated with COVID-19 in Africa than in the rest of the world.
Discover IAP’s new communication and outreach tools and use them to explain how vaccines work
The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the Global Young Academy (GYA) lay out recommendations to mitigate the harms of COVID-19 and seize on the opportunities to improve higher education systems around the world.
In an interconnected world, with pandemic or climate change, development funding must also go to research.
The president of the Clay Mathematics Institute, a major research center in the US, shares his thoughts about how research meetings and interactions could go on during the pandemic. A question that doesn’t concern only mathematicians. Leave your comments!
African institutions are full members of a worldwide coalition to fight COVID-19.
