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Out-of-pocket (OOP) spending by households is a major way of financing health expenditure in many countries, often linking access to care with the ability...
Monitoring air quality (for example collecting continuous and quality data) is integral and critical to detecting air pollutants and to ensuring information...
20 February 2026
WHO water, sanitation, hygiene and waste strategy 2026-2035
Unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) still drive at least 1.4 million preventable deaths each year, while climate shocks, outbreaks, migration...
This brief aligns the latest maternal mortality estimates with whether a country is conflict-affected or considered institutionally fragile. Nearly...