Search Results:  KWMN — Women Issues  (4)

  • World Mental Health Day: an opportunity to kick-start a massive scale-up in investment in mental health

    Joint release by the World Health Organization, United for Global Mental Health and the World Federation for Mental Health

    Mental health is one of the most neglected areas of public health. Close to 1 billion people are living with a mental disorder, 3 million people die every year from the harmful use of alcohol and one person dies every 40 seconds by suicide. And now, billions of people around the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which is having a furth

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    Regions: Argentina, Peru , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Combating Drugs and Crime, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

  • Target product profiles for tuberculosis preventive treatment

    The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched target product profiles to drive the rapid development of novel tuberculosis (TB) preventive treatment today. The target product profiles characterise the most important product attributes to be considered for developing the best suited TB prevention treatments in future.

    One quarter of the global population is estimated to be infected with TB and are at greater risk of developing TB disease, especially those with weakened immunity. Treatment of T

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    Regions: Canada , France , Italy , United Kingdom

    Topics: Global Health

  • Amid continued progress, trachoma elimination programmes set their sights on 2030

    Almost two decades of global work has drastically reduced the number of people at risk of blindness from trachoma from 1.5 billion in 2002 to under 137 million in May 2020 – a 91% decrease. Also in 2002, there were an estimated 7.6 million people with trachomatous trichiasis (TT); by May 2020, this figure had dropped by 74% to 2 million. The 2020 figures represent decreases of 4% and 20%, respectively, since the corresponding 2019 estimates.

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    Regions: China, Iran , Nepal

    Topics: Climate and Environment, Global Health, Global Women's Issues

  • Public statement for collaboration on COVID-19 vaccine development

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    Regions: Argentina, Canada , Chad , China, Norway , United Kingdom

    Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation

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