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Nearly 1,200 attacks on health-care workers and facilities have taken place in the three years since the coup
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1 in 4
One in four U.S. women will have an abortion by age 45
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Abortion in the United States
500,000
UNRWA educates more than 500,000 children and provides basic health services to almost 6 million people
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70%
More than 70 percent of adult men smoke in Indonesia
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1967
In 1967, the WHO identified unsafe abortion as a serious public health problem in many countries
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7 Percent
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3.3 Times
Where there was trust in local health workers people were 3.3 times more likely to wear a mask during COVID
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45 Percent
The number of people dying from opioid use in the U.S. in 2021 was nearly 45 percent higher than in 2020
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Opioid overdose deaths in the United States
34 Million
The number of people who have died from AIDS-related illnesses
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1 in 3
One in three women—1.3 billion women and girls worldwide—experiences gender-based violence in her lifetime
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