Gavi is funding a standing mpox vaccine stockpile, coordinated by the same group that manages emergency supplies for cholera, yellow fever and Ebola, to avoid repeating the 2022 access gap.
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ANALYSISA meta-analysis of more than 155,000 children finds mortality is elevated even at oxygen saturations of 90–94%, above the threshold at which WHO advises hospital oxygen.
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An analysis of global temperature data from 1950 to 2024 finds the share of the world's population facing dangerous heat-stress days has climbed sharply since the 1970s, summarized this month in JAMA.
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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYSThe UK and Rwanda reported the highest anxiety, depression, and vasomotor symptom scores; Nepal, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore reported the lowest. Burnout emerged as the symptom most connected to everything else.
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Intimate partner violence has declined by 0.2% a year over two decades. The report also produces the first national and regional estimates of sexual violence by someone other than a partner.
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WHO's Global Tuberculosis Report 2025 counts 10.7 million people ill and over 1.2 million dead last year. Available funding is US$5.9 billion against a US$22 billion annual target.
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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYSVENUSCANCER assembled individual records for 275,792 women from 103 cancer registries in 39 countries. The gaps it found are in what treatment women actually received, not only in whether they were diagnosed.
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