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DUBLIN Protracted and messy wars mean over 600 million women and children worldwide struggle to access essential health care, according to estimates published in The Lancet medical journal., according to estimates published in The Lancet medical journal. By 2019, the authors wrote, there were 54 "state-based armed conflicts" in 35 countries - wars that had lasted an average of two decades and presented a "growing threat to humanitarian access and the delivery of essential health services, affecting at least 630 million women and children." The research team, from nine institutions, including Stanford University and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, estimated that by 2017, 10 per cent of the world's women and 6 per cent of children "were either forcibly displaced or living dangerously close to conflict zones." From 2009-17, the number of women and children displaced by fighting jumped from around 30 million to over 50 million, wit ....
E-Mail New estimates reveal extent of the health burden of armed conflict affecting at least 630 million women and children worldwide in 2017, and contributing to more than 10 million deaths among children under 5 years of age over 20 years. Changing nature of war is a growing threat to humanitarian access and the provision of essential health services for women and children, but responses in countries like Syria, Pakistan, and Colombia may provide context-specific innovative ways forward. Armed conflicts are becoming increasingly complex and protracted and a growing threat to humanitarian access and the delivery of essential health services, affecting at least 630 million women and children over 8% of the world s population in 2017, according to a new four-paper Series exposing the far-reaching effects of modern warfare on women s and children s health, published today in ....
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