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Togo has received validation from the World Health Organization (WHO) for having eliminated human African trypanosomiasis or “sleeping sickness” as a public health problem, becoming the first country in Africa to reach this milestone.
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Regions: Ghana , Togo , United Kingdom
Topics: Global Health
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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
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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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India is among the countries most dramatically affected by snakebite and accounts for almost half the total number of annual deaths in the world. Authors of the article entitled ‘Trends in snakebite mortality in India from 2000 to 2019 in a nationally representative mortality study’
analysed 2,833 snakebite deaths from 611,483 verbal autopsies from an earlier study1 and conducted a systematic lit
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Regions: Canada , India
Topics: Global Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation