Public Health Updates
Global to Local
- Over 1 in 3 people affected by neurological conditions, the leading cause of illness and disability worldwide (March 2024)
- Global child deaths reach historic low in 2022 – UN report (March 2024)
- Efforts are being made in the south of Madagascar to end a traditional but illegal practice in which girls are promised as a wife to older men, sometimes even before they are born. (March 2024)
- Over 230 million women and girls subjected to female genital mutilation: UNICEF (March 2024)
- UN telecomms agency chief: One third of humanity still offline (March 2024)
- Despite record high global human development scores in 2023, disparities between the haves and the have-nots are widening (March 2024)