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News Articles: Global Health

A person wearing a mask walks past a flower display in front of a supermarket on Front Street East in Toronto on Sept. 16.

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  • National

Canada's government says it will stop requiring masks on airplanes

Government officials also confirmed Canada is dropping the vaccine requirement for people entering the country at the end of the month.

September 27, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Bupe Sinkala of Zambia was diagnosed with HIV shortly before her wedding, didn't tell her fiance — and later saw her life come tumbling down. With the support of family and a new job as a community health worker, she has found joy. She shared her views on the import of community health work at the U.N. General Assembly this week.

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  • Global Health

HIV crashed her life. She found her way back to joy — and spoke at the U.N. this week

Diagnosed with HIV before her wedding, Bupe Sinkala didn't tell her husband and saw her marriage — and life — crumble. Now she's a community health worker advocating for her unsung profession.

September 23, 2022
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By:
  • Max Barnhart
Sean Murphy, lead author of a new malaria vaccine study, demonstrates how participants got their dose: by placing an arm over a mesh-covered container filled with 200 mosquitoes whose bites delivered genetically modified malaria parasites.

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  • Global Health

A box of 200 mosquitoes did the vaccinating in this malaria trial. That's not a joke!

Volunteers for the trial put an arm over a box with hundreds of mosquitoes carrying a genetically modified malaria parasite. Here's why they did it that way — and why the trial holds promise.

September 21, 2022
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By:
  • Max Barnhart
When the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, Nasrat Khalid says, "I think it was one of the moments I felt the most powerless in my life but also the moment that inspired my team to radically shift what we do." That's when Aseel, the online arts business he started, took on charity work, drawing on cash reserves to provide shelter and food to displaced Afghans.

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  • Global Health

He wanted his company to be the Etsy of Afghanistan. Now it has a crucial new mission

As international charities pulled out or faced funding issues after the Taliban takeover, Aseel, an online business that sells local crafts, wondered: Could it help ease the rising wave of hunger?

September 20, 2022
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By:
  • Ruchi Kumar
A women holds a child in the alley of a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh is one of the world's poorest countries; nearly 40% of the population survive on less than a dollar a day.

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  • Global Health

The clock is ticking for U.N. goals to end poverty — and it doesn't look promising

Can we end poverty, provide food for all and otherwise make Earth a better place by 2030? By all accounts, the answer is no. So then what's the point of the Sustainable Development Goals?

September 19, 2022
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By:
  • Nurith Aizenman
Queen Elizabeth II rides on an elephant during one of her three official visits to India. This photo is from February 1961.

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  • Asia

India reacts to Queen Elizabeth II's death with grief, anger — but mainly indifference

Tributes were paid. But for many of the queen's former colonial subjects, her life and death are a reminder of a painful history of exploitation and racism. Others just didn't give it much thought.

September 19, 2022
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  • Lauren Frayer
New father Yappe Pako gets help with his kangaroo care carrier from midwife Marie-Josée Miezan. His newborn son is named Ambo Crisostome. They're in the kangaroo care ward at the University Hospital Medical Center at Treichville in the Ivory Coast. A new program teaches the technique to moms — and dads. It's especially beneficial for preterm and low birthweight babies.

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  • Children's Health

PHOTOS: The moms (and dads) of Ivory Coast are falling in love with kangaroo care

Can the warmth of a parent's chest be a boon to babies, especially premature births? In the 1970s, Colombian researchers found it did. The technique has gone global. Ivory Coast is the latest convert.

September 18, 2022
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  • Andrew Caballero-Reynolds
A pharmacy in New York City offers vaccines for COVID-19 and flu. Some researchers argue that the two diseases may pose similar risks of dying for those infected.

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  • Health

Scientists debate how lethal COVID is. Some say it's now less risky than flu

They argue the threat posed by COVID has lessened because of preexisting immunity and access to treatment. Plus, some deaths may be incorrectly blamed on COVID. Others caution it's too soon to tell.

September 17, 2022
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  • Rob Stein
Children reach for food handouts in the aftermath of the catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, which has destroyed rice, corn and wheat crops and left over a third of the country under water.

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  • Global Health

The number of hungry people has doubled in 10 countries. A new report explains why

The charity Oxfam has issued a new report on hunger and climate change. In countries most severely affected, the number of people experiencing acute hunger has doubled in just 6 years.

September 16, 2022
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By:
  • Andrew Connelly

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  • Global Health

What are your chances of catching monkeypox?

We crunch the current numbers for high-risk and low-risk groups. We also look at how the risk of monkeypox compares with chances of catching COVID, of being in a fatal car crash and of a shark attack.

September 16, 2022
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By:
  • Max Barnhart and
  • Michaeleen Doucleff
Travel rules and regulations — and national lockdowns — have varied wildly, which gave SARS-CoV-2 lots of opportunities to spread. Above: A young traveler's temperature is checked at Taipei Songshan Airport in July 2020.

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  • Global Health

4 ways the world messed up its pandemic response — and 3 fixes to do better next time

A new report from the Lancet Commission sums up the many mistakes that have been made and offers proposals for a more effective global strategy if and when another pandemic should strike.

September 15, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Activists march toward the German consulate during a rally to support two Filipina domestic workers in their lawsuit against a German diplomat.

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  • Global Health

No region is 'immune' as the number of people in 'modern slavery' climbs to 50 million

According to a new report, the number of people subject to forced labor or marriage or trafficking has increased substantially since 2016, with the majority of forced labor cases in rich countries.

September 13, 2022
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
A group of teen girls in Afghanistan is reading and discussing Anne Frank's classic book in a secret book club.

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  • World

In a secret Kabul book club, teen girls find comfort in the diary of Anne Frank

The Taliban banned secondary education for girls. In one secret book club, teens gather to discuss a book from another era that they find deeply relevant: Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl

September 13, 2022
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid
Angélique Kidjo performs at the 1,000th NPR's Tiny Desk Concert. She sings the praises of the series: "The Tiny Desk Concerts bring the whole world into this tiny place where you can make miracles and wonder."

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  • Concerts

Superstar Angélique Kidjo sings at the 1000th Tiny Desk — and speaks from her heart

in an exclusive interview, the 5-time Grammy award-winning Beninese singer talks about her music, her activism and the honor of performing at the 1,000th Tiny Desk Concert ("I'm speechless!")

September 12, 2022
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  • Max Barnhart
Republican politicians claim big financial firms are using environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing to try to bankrupt the fossil fuel industry and to advance other purported liberal objectives they couldn't achieve at the ballot box.

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  • Climate

How ESG investing got tangled up in America's culture wars

Amid Republican attacks, investors focused on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues say they are just trying understand emerging risks and opportunities.

September 12, 2022
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  • Michael Copley
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