WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the figures highlighted the importance of the global pandemic security accord being negotiated in Geneva "to strengthen global health security, but to protect long-term investments in health and promote equity within and between countries".
In addition, almost 1*9 million babies were stillborn in 2021. The stark reality is that 46 countries are projected to have a ratio greater than 140 maternal deaths per 100 000 livebirths by 2030, 59 countries will miss the SDG target for mortality for those younger than 5 years, and even more--64 countries--will miss the neonatal mortality target.
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UNFPA's latest " State of World Population " report also estimates that nearly 500 maternal deaths occur in countries with humanitarian crises or conflicts, and shows that women of African descent in the Americas are more likely to die giving birth than white women.
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Stating that India's G20 presidency is working towards building consensus for an end-to-end global medical countermeasure ecosystem, following a network of networks approach and leveraging existing global and regional initiatives, Pawar urged the leadership of G20 countries to create an interim platform which will be guided by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) process and will feed into the same.
Sources in the department confirmed that there is a massive shortage of medicine in all the civil hospitals of the state due to shortage of budget. A senior medical officer informed that even if there is a local supplier of medicine, they complain about the non-clearance of previous bills.
At the onset of the pandemic in early 2020, some of the 54 countries in the continent of 1.3 billion people lacked the facilities or trained health workers to respond adequately to the health crisis, with some struggling to provide hospital isolation wards and intensive care units. Across the continent WHO is working with countries to reinforce their capacities by training first responders while work is also ongoing to strengthen public health institutions and emergency operations.
The board also gave the green light to leverage Gavi’s decades-long experience combatting the continuum of outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics, including with the recent learnings from COVAX, for pandemic preparedness and response (PPR) – in particular working towards equitable access to outbreak and pandemic vaccines, strengthening health systems, accelerating at-risk innovative financing and supporting diversification of global vaccine manufacturing.
The UN health agency first declared the so-called PHEIC -- its highest level of alarm -- on July 23, and the experts said that while some progress had been made in reining in the disease, it was too soon to declare the emergency over.
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