The COVID-19 pandemic is a child rights crisis challenging long-term survival and development of children and youth worldwide. The pandemic and indirect consequences of associated public health measures are compounding pre-existing stressors to survival that marginalised families confront every day, with detrimental and disproportionate consequences. Service shutdowns, reduced healthcare access, disrupted early childhood education and schooling and long-term economic decline will be more harmful to children than the virus itself. The International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP) is a global organisation of health professionals that aims to improve the health and well-being of children and young people with a focus on the child, in illness and in health, within the context of their society, environment, school and family. This ISSOP Position Statement outlines the impact of COVID-19 to child and youth health inequities and calls for action by governments, health professionals, researchers and advocacy organisations.
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