COVID-19 Syndemics and the Global South: A World Divided [Paperback]

This book focuses on syndemics in the Global South and uses COVID-19 as a window to understand clusters of disparities and disease comorbidities.

This book focuses on syndemics in the Global South and uses COVID19 as a window to understand clusters of disparities and disease comorbidities. The pandemic has exposed and multiplied structural inequalities and certain subpopulations were more exposed to COVID19 as well as experienced greater morbidity and mortality. The effects of the pandemic differ between countries but have had an especially major impact, although in varying ways, in the Global South. The contributions in this volume explore the differential impacts of COVID19 at individual, community, national, or regional levels, considering how structural violence is institutionalized in a way that creates vulnerable situations and disproportionate suffering. The book will be of interest to anthropologists and sociologists as well as to those working in global and public health.

Introduction
Nicola Bulled, Merrill Singer, and Inayat Ali

1 Sick in the City: COVID-19 and the Syndemics of Urban Life

Merrill Singer and Nicola Bulled

2 Effects Multiplied: Syndemic Interactions among Structured Disparities, Comorbidities, and COVID-19 in Pakistan

Inayat Ali

3 Deadly Companions: The Diabetes/COVID-19 (DiaCOVID-19) Syndemic in Mexico and the U.S. Mexican Diaspora

Merrill Singer and Jennifer A. Cook

4 TB-COVID-19 Syndemic in the Philippines: A Double Challenge amidst Public Health Emergency and Social, Political, and Economic Inequalities

Trisha Denise D. Cede?o, Kimberly G. Ramos, Mary Grace A. Pelayo, Princess Rayevy I. Esmillo, and Ian Christopher N. Rocha