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96 Global Health NOW: The Increasing Threat of Extreme Heat; Vanishing Care for Congo鈥檚 Sexual Assault Victims; and The Lifesaving Power of Cash August 26, 2025 A laborer shields from the sun as he works on a construction site along the Garonne river during a heatwave. Bordeaux, France, July 1. Christophe Archambault/AFP via Getty The Increasing Threat of Extreme Heat    Working鈥攁nd even living鈥攊n extreme heat is taking an increasing toll on humans in the climate change era, per new reports. 
Workplace dangers:  

• More than 2.4 billion people face heat stress at work, per the International Labour Organization, . 

• More than 22 million occupational injuries and nearly 19,000 deaths result from heat stress every year. 

• Frequent work in hot indoor and outdoor conditions is affecting normal kidney and neurological functions,  

Help wanted: Extreme heat is forcing many workers to 鈥渁dapt or die,鈥� said the WMO鈥檚 Johan Stander at a news conference last week. 

•  for regulations on maximum working temperatures, noting that heat-related deaths of workers have increased 42% since 2000. 

Accelerated aging beyond work: Enduring repeated heatwaves is making people age faster,  published in Nature Climate Change. 

• Researchers found a nine-day increase in the biological age of a person who lived through four more heatwave days within two years, . The study followed nearly 25,000 people in Taiwan for 15 years.  

Related:    WHO warns of risks of extreme heat in the workplace 鈥�          Croatia urged to strengthen protections for workers in extreme heat 鈥�       Billions at 'real' risk of extreme heat in the workplace, WHO says 鈥�   GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES The Latest One-Liners   Hundreds of Indonesian children received measles vaccinations yesterday in response to an outbreak that has caused 17 deaths and infected 2,000+ children in East Java province over the last eight months.     Botswana declared a public health emergency yesterday as clinics run out of medicines for conditions including hypertension, cancer, diabetes, and tuberculosis; the president, Duma Boko, said the national medical supply chain had failed and announced plans for an emergency distribution drive overseen by the military.     The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists released updated clinical guidance late last week recommending maternal vaccination against COVID-19, influenza, and RSV鈥攆ollowing the American Academy of Pediatrics in contradicting CDC recommendations that exclude COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy or in healthy children.     A lung from a genetically modified pig was transplanted into a person for the first time; the patient, a man in China, was brain dead, but the organ survived for nine days鈥攎arking a step toward clinical trials for xenotransplantation of lungs, considered the most difficult organ to transplant.   U.S. and Global Health Policy News RFK Jr. May Roll Back Major Achievement Donald Trump Called 'Monumental'鈥�     At 16, he mediated a highjacking. Now he鈥檚 negotiating for the survival of HIV programmes  鈥�     Federal judge OKs Medicaid defunding of Maine's largest reproductive health care provider 鈥�      First Opinion: We surveyed hundreds of biomedical researchers about the instability in federal funding. Here鈥檚 what they said 鈥�     On this food issue, RFK Jr., the industry and nutritionists agree 鈥�   VIOLENCE Vanishing Care for Congo鈥檚 Sexual Assault Victims   Sexual violence survivors in the DRC have long struggled to access care鈥攎uch less legal recourse.     Now, even the basic resources for victims are disappearing: 

• As Rwandan-backed rebel group M23 solidifies control in the eastern part of the DRC, camps have been dismantled and clinics and aid have been shut down. 

• And as USAID-funded medical care is terminated, victims increasingly have nowhere to turn.  

Rape remains pervasive in the region. Perpetrators are from all groups involved in the region鈥檚 long-running conflict鈥攁nd very few face any kind of justice.  

• Adding to the crisis: Aid groups say attacks are growing more common against children. 

GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES ROAD SAFETY The U.S.-Canada Crash Gap    Canada and the U.S. are both car-dependent countries. But the two have increasingly divergent road safety records, with car crash deaths far more common in the U.S. than in Canada.     By the numbers: U.S. road deaths rose 18% from 2010 to 2020, while Canada鈥檚 fell 22%, despite faster population growth in Canada, by U.S. and Canadian researchers.     Why? For starters, Canadians drive less due to denser cities and more public transit.  

• But that doesn鈥檛 account for the whole picture, since the U.S. sees more deaths per mile driven, especially involving pedestrians and cyclists. 

Other factors: Canada enforces stricter DUI laws, has widely deployed speed cameras, and limits truck speeds鈥攁ll measures less common in the U.S.      CHILD MORTALITY The Lifesaving Power of Cash    Researchers have identified a powerful tool to help reduce infant mortality in low- and middle-income countries: cash.     Dramatic outcomes: Giving $1,000 in no-strings-attached cash to 10,000 low-income families reduced infant mortality by 48%, and deaths of children under five by 45%, 鈥攁 figure on par with health interventions like anti-malarials and vaccines.     Cash = access: Researchers say the intervention鈥檚 effects played an especially critical role in reducing deaths during birth and in the few weeks after, improving access to hospital births and antenatal care.      OPPORTUNITY QUICK HITS Gaza: UN calls for probe following deadly strikes on Nasser Hospital 鈥�  
Mississippi Declares a Public Health Emergency Over Infant Deaths - Time Magazine 鈥�     Climate Change Likely to Expand the Range of an Asian Bat and the Deadly Disease it Carries 鈥�     Cities Move Away From Strategies That Make Drug Use Safer 鈥�     Using acetaminophen during pregnancy may increase children鈥檚 autism and ADHD risk 鈥�     Common painkillers like Advil and Tylenol supercharge antibiotic resistance 鈥�     Whatever happened to ... the race to cure HIV? There's promising news 鈥�     AI-generated scientific hypotheses lag human ones when put to the test 鈥�   Issue No. 2777
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