Staff Reporter
To assess the socio-economic impacts of Covid-19 on population and young people International E-Conference held on Thursday. The online session was organized by Youth Advocacy Network and attended by Dr. Nausheen Hamid – Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of National Health Services, Alexandra Johns – Executive Director, Asia Pacific Alliance, Chonghee C. Hwang – Senior Manager Asia, Family Planning 2020, Bakhtior Kadirov – Deputy Representative UNFPA, Elmaddin Mehdiyev – Director General ICYF-ERC and representatives of other inteternational organizations.
In her opening remarks Dr. Nausheen Hamid – Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of National Health Services enclosed a bounce compliment support in correlation to alliance and proclaimed that, “The socio economic gaps are vital for the government to determine, because the response that government will determine in coming days, depends upon how we assess the socio economic effects.”
Alexandra Johns – Executive Director, Asia Pacific Alliance shared that in relation to pandemic that, “Covid’19 has greatly impacted young girls as they are at the higher risk of discontinuation of education, which will eventually lead towards having more cases of child marriages”. Fsahat Ul-Hassan – Chief Executive Officer, Youth Advocacy Network spoke briefly of global impacts and hold forth to “The pandemic has drastically impacted the day-to-day life, especially vulnerable population such as young people, women and people with disabilities has been effected the most both mentally and physically.”
