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Korea: Subsidy to individuals who need to be isolated or hospitalized

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https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/policy-responses/beyond-containment-health-sys…

oecd.org (16.04.2020) Provision of a subsidy to individuals who need to be isolated (both self-isolation and hospitalisation) to support their living costs and penalises those who are suspected to be infected if they refuse to receive diagnostic test or subsequent treatment or go through self-isolation.

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korea, Republic of
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UNAIDS calls for urgent action to strengthen social protection programmes in the face of COVID-19

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https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive…

UNAIDS (26.08.2020) UNAIDS is calling on governments to strengthen HIV-sensitive social protection responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

People living with HIV and tuberculosis (TB) are being significantly impacted by COVID-19. Modelling has estimated the potential catastrophic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic with increases of up to 10%, 20% and 36% projected deaths for HIV, TB and malaria patients, respectively, over the next five years.

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Proposition_SS_Monitor_covid19