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A national survey of more than 120,000 children put combined prevalence at 5.4% and heavy-intensity infection below WHO's 1% elimination threshold, after ten years of preventive chemotherapy.
A regional Global Burden of Disease analysis attributes 15.8 million healthy life-years lost in 2023 to high body-mass index, and warns of a 346.3% rise in obesity among the young.
A PAHO systematic analysis of WHO estimates finds injury rates falling in most of the region but violence and drowning still splitting countries apart, with men carrying nearly three-quarters of the burden.
A study of 46 pathogens attributes about 66,400 child deaths in 2023 to Streptococcus pneumoniae across G20 countries, with the heaviest load falling on India, South Africa and Indonesia.
A Global Burden of Disease 2023 study counts 1,102,794 incident tracheal, bronchus and lung cancers in Asians aged 60 and over in 2023, with ageing populations set to sustain the burden even as rates fall.
A descriptive study using WHO modelled estimates for 2022 put current cigarette use between 1.7% in Ghana and 18.2% in Seychelles, with the male-female gap reaching 36.4 points in Lesotho.
A Global Burden of Disease 2021 analysis of 5-to-9-year-olds finds falling disability rates worldwide, yet projects that South and Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa will still carry the heaviest load.
Tungiasis, on WHO's neglected-disease list since 2021 but never quantified, costs up to 379,645 healthy life-years a year — rising to 575,298 once its complications are counted.
A geostatistical re-estimate puts the global toll at 2.1 million envenomings and 274,000 deaths a year at minimum, with African incidence nearly three times South Asia's — against a short antivenom supply.