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News Articles: Global Health

In Bangladesh, turmeric — sold as the root or in a powder form — is a popular spice. In the 1980s, some farmers began adding a dye to make the root more attractive to buyers. But there was a problem with the dye.

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  • Global Health

A lead poisoning mystery: How 2 detectives fingered a surprising culprit

High levels of lead were found in a surprisingly large number of Bangladeshi kids in New York City — and in pregnant women in Bangladesh. Could there be a common cause?

September 24, 2024
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
A vehicle belonging to the Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team drives past the shuttered Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, on Jan. 11, 2020 — the day that the Wuhan health commission reported what is believed to be the first death from COVID-19. A new study points to raccoon dogs sold in the market as the likely source of the spillover of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from animals to humans.

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  • Global Health

New research points to raccoon dogs in Wuhan market as pandemic trigger. It's controversial

With genetic samples from the infamous Wuhan market, a new study makes the case that raccoon dogs are likely the animal that infected humans. Proponents of the lab leak theory are dubious.

September 19, 2024
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By:
  • Gabriel Spitzer
A mobile lab visits a village in the war-torn Kharkiv region. Villagers line up for general checkups. HIV testing and treatment is a big part of the agenda.<br>

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  • Global Health

Ukraine keeps up the fight against HIV while fighting a war

Progress in preventing infections was being made in the country with Europe's second-highest number of HIV cases. Then came the Russian invasion.

September 19, 2024
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By:
  • David Cox
A vial of lenacapavir. The HIV prevention drug, delivered twice yearly by injection, has shown remarkable effectiveness in quashing HIV in trials.

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  • Global Health

This preventive drug could be a 'game changer' in ending the HIV epidemic

In newly released data, lenacapavir, given via a twice-yearly injection, has shown remarkable effectiveness at eliminating HIV transmission during sexual contact. But its cost could be an issue.

September 17, 2024
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By:
  • David Cox and
  • Maria Isabel Barros Guinle
<em>Helena Soholm holds up the five directional flags of Korean shamanism in Dronningmølle, Denmark.</em>

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  • World

How one shaman helps others find healing and meaning in a modern world

Helena Soholm, a Korean American shaman and transpersonal psychologist, integrates Western and Indigenous systems of knowledge to facilitate healing and growth in modern, technologically advanced societies.

September 17, 2024
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By:
  • Arin Yoon
Khadija Rahmani says her son, Mujib Ur Rahman, 12, looks forward to visits from Shabana Siddiqui, a health educator who left Afghanistan in 2022. The Rahmani family arrived in the U.S. in January and settled in Maine.

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  • Global Health

How do you help young Afghan refugees heal? A new program in Maine offers a way

Research shows that a toxic mix of past traumas and the stresses of resettlement puts refugee kids at significantly higher risk of long term mental health challenges. A new effort aims to mitigate those risks by supporting parents and children in refugee families.

September 15, 2024
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By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee
A health worker administers an oral polio vaccine in Zawayda, in the central Gaza Strip. The World Health Organization says that in less than two weeks, they’ve helped administer more than 550,000 polio vaccines to children across the enclave. Now they're gearing up for the second dose.

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  • Global Health

The latest on where Gaza's polio came from — and the race to contain it

There's one confirmed case. And likely hundreds more. As experts try to ID the source of the virus in Gaza, a huge vaccine effort has wrapped up stage 1 and gears up for the critical stage 2.

September 13, 2024
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
An Afghan burqa-clad woman walks past a wall mural with the map of Afghanistan, in Kabul on February 1, 2024.

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  • Global Health

Afghan women sing to protest a law that orders them to keep quiet

A new morality law is full of restrictions. No neckties for men. Photos cannot be reproduced. The harshest rules are for women — who are singing out on social media to protest the ban on singing.

September 13, 2024
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid,
  • Fariba Akbari,
  • and 1 more
A schoolgirl receives a dose of HPV vaccine at a community health service center in Guiyang, Guizhou province, China.

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  • Global Health

Whatever happened to ... the global effort to wipe out cervical cancer with a vaccine?

Now that the World Health Organization has endorsed a one-dose vaccine, global health groups are amping up their effort to inoculate the world's girls. How are they doing?

September 12, 2024
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By:
  • Fran Kritz
Patricia Neves (left) and Ana Paula Ano Bom take a break at the institute in Rio de Janeiro where they work. The two scientists say they've been inseparable since they met in college. Now their friendship has made it possible to launch a remarkable partnership to make mRNA vaccines accessible to the world.

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  • Global Health

Whatever happened to ... the Brazilian besties creating an mRNA vaccine as a gift to the world

Frustrated when Brazil could not get COVID vaccines, two Brazilian doctors (who have been best friends since college) decided to invent their own version and offer up the patent essentially for free.

September 10, 2024
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By:
  • Nurith Aizenman
Meenakshi Gupta, who is blind, works as a "medical tactile examiner" to identify breast tumors. The mannequin is used in the training program for would-be examiners. The strips enable the examiners to identify and carefully examine each zone of the breast.

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  • Global Health

Women who are blind play a critical role in identifying possible breast cancers

Dr. Frank Hoffman was appalled by the sheer numbers of cases of early-stage breast cancer that were being missed. Then he had an idea: What if "we were to specially train others to do it."

September 09, 2024
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By:
  • Kamala Thiagarajan
<em>Fatouma Zahara Hasan, a widow with a large family from the town of Chifera, has her photograph taken on a tablet as part of a vast registration drive to ensure that food aid funded by the United States in parts of Ethiopia is only provided to recipients that qualify.  </em>

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  • Global Health

'I am struggling all alone,' says a widowed Ethiopian mother of 6. Now there's hope

After months of disruption in a massive national feeding effort by global groups, there's a scramble to digitally register more than 6 million Ethiopians to make sure food aid goes to those in need.

September 08, 2024
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By:
  • Willem Marx
Husam Abukhedeir, a Palestinian neurosurgeon, left his native Gaza for the United Arab Emirates last November because he felt that conditions caused by the war had stripped him of his power as a physician — and endangered his family. Nearly 9 months have passed, and Abukhedeir does not see an end in sight to the suffering

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  • Global Health

Whatever happened to ... the Gaza neurosurgeon who faced a wrenching decision

Husam Abukhedeir, the chief neurosurgeon at Al-Shifa Hospital, helped the injured, watched many died, including his sister, then knew what he had to do to protect his family. How is he faring today?

September 06, 2024
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By:
  • Farah Yousry
A doctor discusses treatment for mpox with the mother of an infected infant at the Kavumu hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo. For 18 months, the Congolese have struggled to control an epidemic of the disease without the benefit of vaccines.  The majority of cases and deaths have been in children.

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  • Global Health

First doses of mpox vaccines arrive at the heart of Africa's outbreak. What took so long?

Congo has over 20,000 cases of mpox and hundreds of deaths, mostly in children, but zero vaccines until now. A planeload of doses donated from the EU landed in Kinshasa on Thursday.

September 05, 2024
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
Kayode and Christiana Alabi both competed in table tennis at the Paris Paralympics.  They each had polio in their childhood, growing up in Nigeria.

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  • Global Health

Sports brought hope -- and love -- to these Paralympians who had childhood polio

Athletes who contracted childhood polio share their stories of how they overcame the consequences of the disease — and what sports means to them.

September 05, 2024
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By:
  • Maria Isabel Barros Guinle
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