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How COVID is derailing the fight against HIV, TB and malaria

The pandemic’s effects on efforts to thwart other infectious diseases could exceed the direct impact of COVID-19.
  1. Leslie Roberts
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a “devastating” impact on the fight against other deadly infectious diseases, according to a report that compares 2019 and 2020 data on HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria in more than 100 low- and lower-middle-income countries.

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Nature 597, 314 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02469-8

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  • Correction 14 September 2021: An earlier version of this article stated that there are more than 220,000 million malaria cases per year. This has been corrected to 220 million.

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