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This report published by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) provides a comprehensive overview of mental health in the Americas, with a special focus on the mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report summarizes key statistics related to mental health in the region and examines how the COVID-19 crisis exacerbated numerous risk factors for mental health conditions, such as grief, financial insecurity, unemployment, isolation, and trauma and abuse. In addition to a surge…

These country profiles developed by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) are part of a web portal that provides data for each country’s or territory’s need for UNFPA support based on a collection of six indicators: population, maternal and newborn health, sexual and reproductive health, education, fertility, and harmful practices. Users can also explore statistical dashboards by country for topics including adolescent and youth outcomes, female genital mutilation, midwifery, world population data and trends, and intimate partner violence. The dashboards…

This Lancet Commission report examines girls' and women's health, emerging transitions, and important unmet needs that remain. Population aging and transformations in the social determinants of health have increased the coexistence of disease burdens related to reproductive health, nutrition, and infections, and the emerging epidemic of chronic and noncommunicable diseases. Simultaneously, worldwide priorities in women's health have themselves been changing from a narrow focus on maternal and child health to the broader framework of sexual…