Overcoming the COVID-19 disruption to essential health services

• COVID-19 has eroded access to health services, writes Anatole Manzi, an assistant professor at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda.
• Countries must act now to ensure the continuity of essential health services to prevent a higher death toll from other diseases.

Health-care delivery in nearly every country has been disrupted by policymakers’ mistaken initial assumption that health systems would quickly win the fight against COVID-19. As the pandemic’s caseload and death toll are increasing daily, it is often stalling or reversing hard-won progress on minimizing the impact of other diseases, from diabetes to malaria.

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