{
  "id": 16847477,
  "title": "The need for equity in global health: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/the-need-for-equity-in-global-health-lessons-from-the-covid-19",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-28T04:02:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IOL",
    "slug": "iol",
    "url": "https://iol.co.za/sundayindependent/dispatch/2026-10-28-the-need-for-equity-in-global-health-lessons-from-the-covid-19-pandemic/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The COVID-19 pandemic has unforgivingly exposed the flaws in the global health response system. With negotiations underway for a new agreement, the world must ensure that the mistakes of the past are not repeated.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}