Test Module 2

The World Health Organization’s first global report on sepsis finds that the effort to tackle millions of deaths and disabilities due to sepsis is hampered by serious gaps in knowledge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. According to recent studies, sepsis kills 11 million people each year, many of them children. It disables millions more.

But there’s an urgent ne

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Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Global Women's Issues

A three-year trial in Indonesia has produced encouraging results that show a significant reduction in the number of dengue cases. It involved the release Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in and around the dengue-endemic city of Yogyakarta.

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Regions: Indonesia

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

Information Exchange System

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Topics: Global Women's Issues

Meaningful youth engagement to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights  

Every day, young people are enriching institutions and processes at the local, national, and global levels.  

This year, the theme of International Youth Day is "Youth Engagement for Global Action

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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

Good-quality medicines, given at the right time, can save the lives of pregnant and recently pregnant women and their newborn babies. New evidence synthesis reveals however, that in many health-care settings across the world, women with life-threatening maternal complications are given poor quality medicines – putting their lives and well-being at grave risk.

The systematic review, authored by staff at WHO Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research

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Topics: Combating Drugs and Crime, Global Women's Issues

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Regions: Sudan , Uganda

Topics: Global Health, Global Women's Issues

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Regions: Saudi Arabia

Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Global Women's Issues

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Regions: United Kingdom

Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Global Women's Issues, Science, Technology, and Innovation