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News Articles: Global Health

The richest people in the world got even richer during the pandemic and more people fell into poverty, says an Oxfam report. The charity claims that this growing economic gap leads to "economic violence."

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  • Global Health

Oxfam says the rich got richer in the pandemic, and the wealth gap is killing the poor

The poverty-fighting charity points to unprecedented new wealth accrued by the ultra-rich — and asserts that the result of the world's growing inequality is "economic violence" for the impoverished.

February 08, 2022
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By:
  • Joanne Lu
A photograph of a woman who says she was a victim of marital rape. She is posing outside near her home in New Delhi. The Delhi High Court is now considering petitions that call for the criminalization of marital rape.

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  • Global Health

Marital rape is still legal in India. A court decision could change that

Women's groups have petitioned the Delhi High Court to close a legal loophole and criminalize marital rape. A decision is expected soon. Men who oppose the petitions have gone on a "marriage strike."

February 08, 2022
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
SARS-CoV-2 is shown in this colorized transmission electron micrograph. This specimen was isolated from a patient in the U.S. Particles of the virus are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab.

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  • Global Health

The future of the pandemic is looking clearer as we learn more about infection

Scientists are beginning to come up with answers to the question of how long antibodies from an infection can protect you — and what they'll protect you from.

February 07, 2022
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff
Testing blood for malaria at a Doctors Without Borders clinic in Malawi.

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  • Global Health

Drug-resistant malaria is emerging in Africa. Doctors are worried — yet hopeful

Resistance to the drug artemisinin was confirmed in Africa. Without better surveillance, experts say it is hard to track the threat.

February 06, 2022
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By:
  • Pratik Pawar
Pennsylvania's acting Secretary of Health Keara Klinepeter walks from a news conference at Grandview Health in Sellersville, Pa., on Jan. 24.

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  • Health

900,000 Americans have died of COVID in 2 years of the global pandemic

The U.S. death rate from COVID-19 continues to increase daily, as the rolling seven-day average for daily COVID-19 deaths has been above 2,000 since Jan. 23.

February 04, 2022
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin and
  • Rob Stein
Antibody tests are becoming more available at drugstores, but what do the results <em>really</em> tell you? Above: A Paris pharmacist deposits a blood sample for a COVID-19 antibody test.

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  • Global Health

Coronavirus FAQ: My drugstore now offers antibody tests. Is it worth getting one?

Antibody tests may be coming soon to a pharmacy near you. Here's what the tests reveal — and don't reveal — about you and COVID-19.

February 04, 2022
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By:
  • Sheila Mulrooney Eldred
A colorized electron microscope image from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a single human immunodeficiency virus budding from a human immune cell.

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  • Global Health

Discovery of HIV variant shows virus can evolve to be more severe — and contagious

Findings from a new study help answer questions about why some people get more severe and transmissible HIV than others — and serve as a reminder that viruses don't always weaken over time.

February 04, 2022
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By:
  • Melody Schreiber
A worker prepares to administer a COVID-19 test at the 2022 Winter Olympics on Wednesday. So far, 111 athletes and officials have tested positive for the virus at the Olympics, including from people arriving at the airport.

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  • Sports

COVID-19 jeopardizes medal hopes for some Olympic athletes in Beijing

All the training in the world can't help COVID-positive athletes test negative faster. Even with strict protocols in place, athletes risk missing events as the infections rise inside the Games bubble.

February 04, 2022
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By:
  • Emma Bowman
A Cuban industrial complex prepares to start production of one of the country's newly developed COVID vaccines.

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  • Global Health

A small island nation has cooked up not 1, not 2 but 5 COVID vaccines. It's Cuba!

Cuba has one of the world's highest COVID vaccination rates, with more than 85% of the nation fully immunized and kids as young as 2 getting inoculated. And it's done so using homegrown vaccines.

February 02, 2022
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By:
  • Jason Beaubien
Abdul Alim, one of Pakistan's oldest COVID survivors, died of natural causes on Jan. 27. He was 104 years old.

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  • Global Health

A 104-year-old COVID survivor has died. He wanted to keep people safe until the end

In his final days, Alim asked people not to visit him or his family due to rising COVID cases in his community. "Even in death he wanted to keep people and our family safe," says his son.

February 01, 2022
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By:
  • Benazir Samad
A Hong Kong hamster that evaded the cull.

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  • Global Health

Coronavirus FAQ: Are pets a threat? My immunocompromised pal had COVID. Can I visit?

Hong Kong's hamster cull has people wondering if they can catch SARS-CoV-2 from a pet. And here's a human dilemma: Is it risky to visit an immunocompromised individual who recently had COVID?

January 31, 2022
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By:
  • Marc Silver
Ibrahim Songne, an immigrant from Burkina Faso, opened a pizza spot called IBRIS in the Italian town of Trento. He overcame local prejudices — and now has been named to a list of the world's top 50 pizzerias.

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  • Food

An African immigrant's pizza wins global raves — and overcomes Italian prejudices

Ibrahim Songne's pizza place triumphed over local anti-immigrant sentiments — and now has earned a spot on a worldwide top 50 pizza list! To think — he didn't even like pizza when he first tried it.

January 30, 2022
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By:
  • Ian Brennan
A scene from <em>Midwives</em>: A baby whose face is adorned with thanaka — a kind of sunscreen made from wood bark.

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  • Arts & Life

Sundance prize goes to 'Midwives' — about a Buddhist midwife and her Muslim apprentice

The documentary follows a Buddhist and a Muslim — who don't always get along — as they provide health care to Muslim women and children despite growing political and religious tensions in Myanmar.

January 28, 2022
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By:
  • Malaka Gharib
A student washes her hands before entering a classroom at a school in Blantyre, Malawi, in March 2021. Top scientists say that many African countries, including Malawi, appear to have already arrived at a substantially less threatening stage of the coronavirus pandemic.

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  • Global Health

Africa may have reached the pandemic's holy grail

New findings from Malawi suggest the country has entered something akin to the endemic stage of the pandemic — along with many other African nations.

January 28, 2022
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By:
  • Nurith Aizenman
A computer-generated image of the omicron variant of the coronavirus.

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  • Global Health

A second version of omicron is spreading. Here's why scientists are on alert

It's a sibling of the first omicron variant that swept the world. Is it more contagious? Does it cause severe disease? Will it keep current omicron surges going? Researchers are looking for answers.

January 27, 2022
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff
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