Get latest articles and stories on Business at LatestLY. A new UN report, titled Protect the Promise, shows that women s and children s health has suffered globally, as the impacts of conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change converge with devastating effects on prospects for children, young people and women. Business News | Staggering Backsliding Across Women s, Children s and Adolescents Health Revealed in New UN Report, Protect the Promise.
New Delhi [India], October 19 (ANI/PNN): A new UN report, titled Protect the Promise, shows that women's and children's health has suffered globally, as the impacts of conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change converge with devastating effects on prospects for children, young people and women. Data presented in the report, launched at the World Health Summit in Berlin, show most maternal, child, and adolescent deaths and stillbirths are concentrated in just two regions - sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. It also shows a critical regression across virtually every major measure of childhood wellbeing, and many key indicators of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Since the last Every Woman Every Child Progress Report published in 2020, food insecurity, hunger, child marriage, risks from intimate partner violence, and adolescent depression and anxiety have all increased. An estimated 25 million children were un- or under-vaccinated in 2021 - 6 million more than in 2019