The United Nations Foundation (UNF)

Hygiene and health company Essity extends its partnership with United Nations Foundation by joining the organization’s campaign #EqualEverywhere to accelerate progress towards gender equality.

The United Nations Foundation's #UniteForHealth campaign proves the importance of building strong healthcare systems that work for everyone. Because we all depend on each other. Here's why: 

• As many as 71 million people could fall back into poverty as a result of the pandemic - the first rise in global poverty in 20 years. 

• Existing prevention and treatment programs against other diseases are being disrupted. This could mean 500,000 more deaths from AIDS-related illnesses and up to 700,000 more deaths from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa in a year.

• Up to 80 million children are at risk of preventable diseases like measles, and polio because vital immunization programs have been paused. 

• Black, Indigenous and people of color in the U.S. are more than twice as likely to die as a result of COVID-19 because of unequal access to healthcare. 

• Domestic abuse against women around the world has increased - in some countries by up to 30% - because women spend more time with their abusers during lockdowns. 

• Reduced access to contraceptives during a six-month lockdown could lead to up to 7 million unintended pregnancies.