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2.5 Times
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1,200
Nearly 1,200 attacks on health-care workers and facilities have taken place in the three years since the coup
1 in 4
One in four U.S. women will have an abortion by age 45
500,000
UNRWA educates more than 500,000 children and provides basic health services to almost 6 million people
70%
More than 70 percent of adult men smoke in Indonesia
1967
In 1967, the WHO identified unsafe abortion as a serious public health problem in many countries
3.3 Times
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45 Percent
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34 Million
The number of people who have died from AIDS-related illnesses
1 in 3
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