<p>India’s COVID-19 lockdown is widely believed to have disrupted critical health services, but its effect on non-COVID health outcomes is largely unknown.Comparing mortality trends among dialysis patients in the eight months around the lockdown with the previous year, researchers&nbsp;document a 64 percent&nbsp;increase in mortality between March and May 2020 and an estimated 22-25 percent&nbsp;total excess mortality between April and July 2020, the first four months after the lockdown was imposed.The mortality increase is greater among women&nbsp;and disadvantaged groups.Barriers to transportation and disruptions in hospital services appear to be the main drivers of increased morbidity and mortality.</p>

<p>Researchers studied&nbsp;the employment status and aspirations of youth who had joined Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) in Tamil Nadu over a period of three years (2017 to 2019).The cohort, including graduates, dropouts and current students, were asked questions about their principal activity in the month of March 2020 (before the COVID-19 pandemic), changes in their status during the lockdown period (March - July 2020), and their work aspirations for the near future.</p>

<p>The Feed the Future Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity (MAPSA) is a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded activity, led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), in partnership with Michigan State University (MSU), that seeks to improve governance in the agricultural sector in Myanmar.MAPSA partnered with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) to conduct six rounds of Rural-Urban Food Security Survey (RUFSS).The RUFSS survey monitors food security, nutrition and gender impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on households with pregnant women in peri-urban Yangon and households with young children in rural areas.&nbsp; Derek D.</p>