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Pasadena Public Health Department Hosts Spanish-language COVID-19 Vaccine Community Discussion, Unidos en CommUNITY: Infórmate. Protégete. Vacúnate. Pasadena ...

As of April 19, 2022, approximately 10,664 confirmed COVID-19 cases (37.5% of all cases) in Pasadena were among Hispanic and Latino residents. COVID-19 vaccines are safe and highly effective, but it is understandable that community members may still have questions about how they work and why they are needed. PPHD is continuing to work with community organizations and our Hispanic and Latino community members to reduce barriers to vaccination, including misinformation.” Hearing accurate information from trusted community members can be very helpful to those who have lingering questions about COVID-19 vaccines.” PPHD Program Coordinator Claudia Pinedo will serve as the event moderator. The panel discussion will take place from 10 a.m. to noon, with complimentary lunch immediately following the presentation.

English News and Press Release on Ethiopia about Food and Nutrition and Drought; published on 18 May 2022 by Oxfam and Save the Children.

- According to IPC (see IPC Population Tracking Tool) and the FAO-ICPAC Food Security and Nutrition Working Group, 22.4 - 23.4m people across Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia will face high levels of acute hunger (IPC3 and above), including almost half a million in famine-like conditions. - Please get in touch for a copy of the report and the executive summary. - Across the three countries, the crude death rate is at least 627-1,802 per day, 0.44-1.25 per minute, i.e., between one every 2.5 minutes and one every 48 seconds. - Governments of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia must scale up social protection to help people cope with multiple shocks. Rich nations successfully, and rightly, raised over $16bn in one month to address the terrible crisis in Ukraine. They pumped over $16 trillion dollars into their economies in response to COVID-19 to support those in need. Just two per cent ($93.1 million) of the current $4.4bn UN appeal for Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia has formally been funded to date. The drought has eroded economic reserves, herd size, and human health and is a major factor behind the alarming numbers of people without enough to eat daily. We have a few camels and goats that have survived the drought, but we are afraid we might lose them if the drought continues. They have not adequately invested in agriculture or social protection systems to help people better cope with the drivers of hunger, including climatic and economic shocks. This is against a backdrop of crippling debt that more than tripled in under a decade – from $20.7 billion in 2012 to $65.3 billion by 2020 – sucking these countries’ resources from public services and social protection. It finds that despite an improved response to the 2017 East Africa drought when widespread famine was averted, the national and global responses have largely remained too slow and too limited to prevent a repeat today. Climate-induced drought, compounded by conflicts forcing people out of their homes, and COVID-19 economic turmoil, has decimated people’s last ability to cope.