BY AENEAS CHUMA
The Covid-19 pandemic has worsened inequalities and heightened people’s vulnerabilities, especially the 25.6-million people living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak, reports from the UNAids country offices in the eastern and southern African region trickle in every day on the loss of livelihoods and the resulting food insecurity and general deprivation in the region, especially among the millions of people who make a living from the informal sector — such as sex workers, informal traders and domestic workers.