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The United Nations has warned that “unprecedented” global aid cuts could derail a three-year trend of a 40% decline in maternal deaths as one maternal death occurred every two minutes worldwide in 2023.
Drugs Health Pharma

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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Progress in slowing child mortality and stillbirth deaths has received a severe blow due to funding cuts and shortages, with 1.9 million children dying in 2023 on account of stillbirths.
Drugs Health Pharma

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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obesity
Health Research

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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The world’s top 50 richest billionaires, with their private jets, yachts and polluting investments, produce more carbon pollution in over an hour than an average person does in their lifetime, a study by Oxfam reports.
Climate Health Medical

‘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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About 24% of adolescent girls or close to 19 million globally have experienced physical or sexual violence by their intimate partner by the time they turn 20 years old, according to a WHO-funded report.
Drugs Health Pharma

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
Drugs Health Pharma

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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UN says 13.4 million babies born preterm globally in 2020, 1m dies
Drugs Health Pharma

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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Maternal deaths have risen or stagnated globally over recent years, and every two minutes, a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth, according to the WHO.
Drugs Health Pharma

‘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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WHO Malaria Africa
Drugs Health Pharma

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.

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