Health

The results, published in Nature Medicine on Monday, warn that if current trends continue, the world will see 3.2 million new cases of breast cancer and 1.1 million related deaths each year by the middle of the century. The burden will be felt disproportionately in low and intermediate income countries, where access to detection, processing […]

“I was married at 14 and I lost my first child at 16 during pregnancy,” said Ranu Chakma. Children’s marriage is common in his village of Teknaf Upazila, on the southern coast of Bangladesh, even if it is illegal and a violation of human rights. These violations even arise at a time when many countries

Who said in a press release that more than 591,000 children under the age of 10 will receive the vaccine to protect them from highly infectious disease from this weekend for a scheduled period of five days. The campaign follows the recent poliovirus detection in wastewater samples in the broken enclave which points out that

In a press conference on Tuesday, the director general of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stressed the consequences of financing suspensions, in particular disturbances in the treatment of HIV, setbacks of the eradication of polio and limited resources for Respond to MPOX epidemics in Africa. “The suspension of funding at PEPFAR, the president’s emergency plan for

About 400,000 children receive a cancer diagnosis each year and most of them live in low -income countries where drugs are unavailable or unavailable, resulting in an overwhelming mortality rate of 70%. In high -income countries, more than eight in 10 children diagnosed survive. “”The platform is now defined to fill this gap“Said Dr. Andre

Zeinaba Mahr Aouad, a 24 -year -old woman from Djibouti, remembers the day when, at ten, an unexpected visitor came to her house: “She had a syringe, a blade and razor bandages.” The woman was there to carry out a brutal operation, useless and – since 1995 in the country of the Horn of Africa

Speaking of Gaza, whose representative Rik Peeperkorn described a scene of generalized destruction, outdated medical facilities and growing mental health needs, because the population of the enclave gradually returns to what remains of their homes after near 16 months of conflict. “Everyone in Gaza is affected … stress, anxiety, depression and loneliness. It is everywhere,

Female genital mutilations (MGF) refer to all procedures involving partial or total elimination of female external genitals or other injuries to female genital organs for non -medical reasons, according to the World Health Organization (OM ). “More than 230 million living girls and women today are survivors of this odious practice”, ” said UN secretary

The renunciation allows the continuation or resumption of “vital humanitarian aid”, including the treatment of HIV. This means that 20 million people living with HIV and whose drugs are funded by the United States can continue to receive treatment. “This represents 20 million out of the 30 million people living with HIV worldwide,” said Christine

According to the last directive of President Trump of the White House on Tuesday on international cooperation, the United States will no longer participate or will not financially support the Human Rights Council in Geneva, which should meet on Friday to discuss the crisis of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The executive decree also