Health risk in the global South

Health risk in the global South

While industrialised countries are managing to control deaths from invasive fungal infections (IFIs), their rapid spread poses a major threat to developing countries, where some at-risk groups are highly exposed. These include people with poorly managed diabetes, patients with respiratory, liver or kidney conditions, and those living with HIV. In 2021, at the height of the Covid pandemic, India faced a devastating outbreak of mucormycosis, a fun…