Climate Migration primarily in middle income, agri-dependent countries: Study
Study can go long way in pinpointing future hot spots for climate-induced migration
Almost entire global population breathes unhealthy air: WHO
Large variation in PM2.5 levels across global economies, NO2 concentration almost same
Every 9th person in the world went hungry last year: UN report
Around 700 million were exposed to severe food insecurity in 2018
Debt crisis and gap in affordable climate finance in focus at IMF, World Bank meeting
Spring Meetings 2023 took place from April 10-16, 2023 in Washington DC
Almost half of doctors in US from lower-income countries
India has spent around $1,850 million on 53,000 medical graduates practicing in the US
Air pollution slows economic growth, harms poor most: Report
Around 275 million people in extreme poverty globally exposed to hazardous PM 2.5 levels
State of migration: Cross border movement
As income levels and demographic trajectories change over time, the directions of migration flows change as well
Cervical cancer is a disease of inequity: here’s how to save 60 million lives
Providing the pap smear for detecting cervical cancer to all women requires a complex infrastructure, that has made it prohibitively expensive in …
Consumer demand doesn't let countries ban import of cheap used cars
Despite taking measures, low- and middle-income countries are struggling to stave off cheap vehicle dumping
Global agricultural productivity not growing as fast as food demand: Report
Accelerate investments in agricultural research and development to increase and preserve productivity gains, especially for small farmers
Malaria cases, deaths begin stabilising after COVID disruption: WHO
While deaths came down to 619,000 in 2021 from 625,000 in the first year of the pandemic, it remained higher than the pre-pandemic level of 568,…
India lost nearly 5 million people to COVID-19, says WHO; that is 10 times the official figure
Some 14.9 million people died due to COVID-19 globally; that is three times the number reported
Only 11% low-income countries make their data open: World Bank report
Gaps in data on women and girls particularly severe; countries do not invest enough in public intent data systems, the report said
Data democracy: WHO bats for passing on genomics tech to developing world
Inaccessible tech not justifiable; Focus required on inadequate finances, lab infra, highly trained personnel
COVID-19: Vaccine inequity persists as 2.8 billion people yet to receive even one dose
Low-income countries will also have to spend more to achieve 70% vaccination target
Global Burden of Diseases: Non-communicable diseases bigger burden than early deaths
New report’s findings again emphasises the fast emergence of non-communicable diseases as a global health challenge
50 years of international aid: World’s richest countries owe $5.7 trillion debt to poor, says OXFAM
Substantial debt owed to world’s poorest people 9 times more than sub-Saharan Africa’s stock of external debt at 2019-end
A third of world’s children are poisoned by lead, says UNICEF report
India accounts for 275,561,163 of these children; lead levels in blood of Indian children show they can lose four intelligence quotient points …