RE-THINKING POVERTY AND HEALTH ISSUES IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

Eliminating local and global poverty is a presenting challenge and a task that must be
accomplished in setting out for the achievement of sustainable development per the 17 Goals of
the UN, with adequate health provisions and sustainable environment. As people tend to live
longer, there are dwindling and limited resources for the world's growing population, with
tendency towards abject poverty among vulnerable populations. The economies of the tropical
and sub-tropical regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America have consequentially been made to
run the gauntlet in the exacerbated poverty, declining health and environmental prospects in the
COVID-19 pandemic era.