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A look at global health issues. Millions die each year from easily preventable diseases. Global factors such as poverty, access to health care, patent issues at the world trade organization (WTO) and the power of pharmaceutical companies are major problems. Global health initiatives to fight AIDS/HIV, malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and other global diseases have showed some encouraging signs, as

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WHO appeals for $1.5 billion to deliver healthcare in crises

Web ResultMonday, January 15, 2024. UN News. The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday launched a $1.5 billion emergency appeal to provide care to more than …

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Why Is Biodiversity Important

Web ResultBiodiversity is important, more than just the 'I want my children to enjoy it' reason. For example, the richness of diversity allows medicines and foods to be …

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Global Health Overview — Global Issues

Web ResultMillions die each year from easily preventable diseases. Global factors such as poverty, access to health care, patent issues at the world trade …

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Bold action needed now to address ‘cataclysmic’ situation in Haiti

Web ResultChildren in crisis . Separately, the UN Children’s Fund warned this week that the armed violence is deepening the nutrition crisis for Haiti’s youngest …

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Increased cancer risk for petroleum industry workers and people …

Web ResultPeople working in the petroleum industry or living near petroleum facilities are at increased risk of developing several different cancer types, …

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Q&A: Why are Stillbirths still Societal Taboo

Web ResultShe shared her insight with IPS after a U.N. high-level meeting organised to raise awareness and to end preventable stillbirths last week. There …

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Public Health and Epidemics — Global Issues

Web ResultPublic Health and Epidemics. STOCKHOLM / ROME, Apr 30 (IPS) - For some time Wuhan in China and Lombardy in Italy were epicentres of the …

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Healthcare: Lack of universal coverage, ‘human rights tragedy on a

Web ResultLatest news. Read the latest news stories: Phasing out from Fossil Fuels: An Imperative for Climate Justice Tuesday, February 20, 2024; Snowless …

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Health Care Around the World — Global Issues

Web ResultHealth provision varies around the world. Almost all wealthy nations provide universal health care (the US is an exception). Health provision is …

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World misses most 2020 mental health targets: WHO — Global …

Web ResultAnd only 52 per cent of countries met the target relating to mental health promotion and prevention programmes, also well below the 80 per cent …

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Causes of Poverty — Global Issues

Web ResultIn most nations today, inequality—the gap between the rich and the poor—is quite high and often widening. The causes are numerous, including a …

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Obesity — Global Issues

Web ResultObesity is a growing global health problem. Obesity is when someone is so overweight that it is a threat to their health. Obesity typically …

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Health in the Media — Global Issues

Web ResultHealth in the Media. by Anup Shah. This page last updated Tuesday, September 28, 2010. Many of us grow up learning from our families and cultural …

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Population Ageing: An Inescapable Future — Global Issues

Web ResultWednesday, January 05, 2022. Inter Press Service. PORTLAND, USA, Jan 05 (IPS) - The ageing of human populations is an inescapable demographic future. That …

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The Clinton Doctrine of Humanitarian Interventions

Web ResultShortly after the Kosovo crisis ended, the Clinton Administration came out with the Clinton doctrine. This doctrine basically stated that the United States …

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World News in Brief: 17 million Yemenis need health support, …

Web ResultLatest news. Read the latest news stories: Building Resilience and Mental Health Capacity of Youth Monday, March 25, 2024; Defending Human …

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Rising Suicides Shine Spotlight on Malawi's Mental Health Burden

Web ResultInter Press Service. Lilongwe, Malawi, Dec 13 (IPS) - When a former deputy speaker of Parliament shot himself dead within the National Assembly …

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Understanding Unauthorized Migration — Global Issues

Web ResultNEW YORK, Nov 15 (IPS) - Growing numbers of men, women and even children in every major region of the world are joining international streams of unauthorized …

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Health system ‘barely surviving’ as OCHA calls for Gaza aid

Web ResultLatest news. Read the latest news stories: World News in Brief: Russia vetoes DPR Korea sanctions resolution, children under fire in Sudan, drought …

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Structural Adjustment—a Major Cause of Poverty

Web ResultEven the 1997/98/99 global financial crisis can be partly blamed on structural adjustment and early, overly aggressive deregulation for emerging …

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