Forty-three Sub-Saharan African nations on a climate ‘red zone’ list
HQ Team June 26, 2025: Two-thirds of the African continent, according to a new climate vulnerability index, is at increasing risk of extreme.
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Maternal mortality rates may fail UN goal, global aid cuts the main culprit
HQ Team April 9, 2025: The United Nations has warned that “unprecedented” global aid cuts could derail a three-year trend of a 40%.
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Funding cuts ‘severely’ bleeding UN’s child survival, stillbirth programs
HQ Team March 25, 2025: Progress in slowing child mortality and stillbirth deaths has received a severe blow due to global funding cuts.
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Over half of adults and a third of children projected to be overweight by 2050
HQ Team March 8, 2025: A study published in The Lancet by the Global Burden of Disease Study BMI Collaborators reveals alarming statistics.
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‘Luxury jets, yachts emit more carbon an hour than a person’s lifetime’
The world’s top 50 richest billionaires, with their private jets, yachts and polluting investments, produce more carbon pollution in over an hour than.
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A quarter of global adolescent girls face violence by intimate partners: WHO
About 24% of adolescent girls or close to 19 million globally have experienced physical or sexual violence by their intimate partner by the.
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Opinion: HPV, cervical cancer, women and vaccination
By K. Leelamoni December 12, 2023: The Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is the name of a group of viruses of 200 known viruses..
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13.4 million babies born preterm globally in 2020, nearly 1m die: UN
HQ Team October 6, 2023: About 13.4 million babies were born early in 2020, with nearly one million dying from preterm complications, according.
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‘Every two minutes, a woman dies during childbirth, pregnancy’
Maternal deaths have risen or stagnated globally over recent years, and every two minutes, a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth, according to.
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Drug resistance to malaria on the rise in Africa, WHO says
Antimalarial drug resistance in Africa is a severe cause for concern and parasite resistance to artemisinin medicine has emerged in the Greater Mekong.