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News Articles: Global Health

An unidentified illness has been reported in Kwango Province, in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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  • Global Health

How worried should we be about Disease X?

An unidentified illness has claimed nearly 80 lives in DRC. Investigators are on the scenes to determine what it is — and how much of a threat it poses locally and globally.

December 05, 2024
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  • Gabrielle Emanuel
A child undergoing cancer treatment. Countries in the Global South often have far lower survival rates for childhood cancer than in wealthy nations.

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  • Global Health

For a kid with cancer, where they live has a huge impact on whether they'll survive

In wealthy countries, a child diagnosed with cancer often has an excellent chance of survival. But in lower resource countries, survival rates are dramatically lower. What's going on?

December 05, 2024
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  • David Cox
Nurses caring for patients at Wazir Akbar Khan hospital in Kabul on September 1, 2021. Since assuming power that year, the Taliban has curtailed educational opportunities for women. This week they reportedly banned women from studying nursing and midwivery.

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  • Global Health

Afghan women reportedly barred from studying nursing and midwivery

Several sources confirm the Taliban pronouncement, part of ongoing efforts to curtail education for girls and women. Women studying these subjects say they were barred from classes this week.

December 04, 2024
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By:
  • Ruchi Kumar
Sharifa Movahidzadeh is one of the three protesters profiled in <em>Bread & Roses</em>, the documentary film about Taliban policies that restrict the rights of women. The film is now streaming on Apple TV+.

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  • Global Health

'Bread & Roses' is a guerrilla film about Afghan women protesters

Getting footage from the ground was essential for filmmaker Sahra Mani, the director of Bread & Roses. Her documentary, which profiles three women who engage in protests, is now streaming on Apple TV+.

December 03, 2024
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By:
  • Ruchi Kumar
The African nation of Mauritania was a land of pastoral nomads when it gained independence from France in 1960, but it has since become a nation of fishermen as well, with hundreds of pirogues lining the beach of the capital of Nouakchott.

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  • Global Health

PHOTOS: A drone's eye view of 'foodscapes,' from cattle to soybeans to shrimp

Traveling to 36 countries and 5 oceans, George Steinmetz (and his drones) take us on a food tour in his new book Feed the Planet:  A Photographic Journey to the World's Food.

November 27, 2024
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  • Diane Cole
Women protest against the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at a government hospital in India this August.

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  • Global Health

U.N. report: 85,000 cases of femicide in 2023. And that's likely an undercount

These are women murdered by an intimate partner, a family member, a rapist, a stranger randomly assaulting females. Laws do not always offer protection and justice. What needs to be done?

November 25, 2024
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  • Fatma Tanis
The musicians Ed Sheeran and Fuse ODG have issued strong criticism of a new version of the fund-raising-for- Africa song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" In a statement, they noted: "They perpetuate damaging stereotypes that stifle Africa's economic growth, tourism and investment."

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  • Global Health

Ed Sheeran and Fuse ODG rebuke Band Aid charity song. We ask Kenyans to weigh in

The singers have criticized "They Don't Know It's Christmas" for perpetuating "damaging stereotypes" of Africans as a charity case. Bob Geldof defends the song. We went to Kibera for comments.

November 25, 2024
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  • Thomas Bwire
Students at Eden School in northern India prepare specimens they've collected to examine in the Foldscope. The paper microscope, invented a decade ago, is given for free for schools in lower resource countries, giving students a different perspective on specimens from ants to pollen.

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  • Global Health

Fold paper. Insert lens. This $2 microscope changes how kids see the world

The Foldscope brings a powerful science tool to schools that can't afford microscopes. Scientists use it too. Its creators have handed out 2 million units, including a new mini-model for younger kids.

November 25, 2024
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  • Kamala Thiagarajan
Family members gather by a stove in Afghanistan, which has been hit by droughts over the past three years. The country is ranked one of the most vulnerable and ill-prepared nations in coping with climate change. Global support for projects to address climate-related issues has been largely on hold since the Taliban took power.

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  • Global Health

For the first time ever, Taliban reps were invited to the big U.N. climate conference

Since the Taliban took power 2021, Afghanistan has not been invited to big climate conferences. And money for projects addressing climate-related issues has been frozen. Are things about to change?

November 22, 2024
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  • Ruchi Kumar
A health worker fumigates the basement of a building in Havana as Cuban health authorities launch small-scale efforts to fight the spread of the oropouche virus, which is transmitted by midge and mosquito bites.

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  • Global Health

It's a virus you may not have heard of. Here's why scientists are worried about it

Case counts for Oropouche virus are still low but rising dramatically. What's going on? And then there's a study that raises the possibility that insect bites aren't the only way the virus can spread.

November 21, 2024
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  • Maria Isabel Barros Guinle
A magnification of the anterior of the larva of the pork tapeworm, showing hooks and suckers. Colors of this image have been manipulated. Parasitic worms made the news after the press reported on a past deposition by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that he had been infected by a parasitic worm. RFK Jr. did not specify the type of worm but worm researchers believe it could have been a pork tapeworm.

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  • Global Health

RFK Jr. isn't the only one. More than a billion people have parasitic worms

Earlier this year, a surprising story emerged about RFK Jr. — the newly named nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services — and a parasitic brain worm.

November 15, 2024
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  • Gabrielle Emanuel
A technician at a Chinese pharmaceutical company works on breeding the plant sweet wormwood, used in creating artemisinin, the go-to medicine for killing the malaria parasite.

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  • Global Health

What's going on with the 'magic' drug for malaria?

The anti-malarial drug Artemisinin is highly effective. It's critical for kids, who are especially vulnerable. A new study comes to an alarming conclusion.

November 15, 2024
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
Mahawat Zakaria Jouma is happy when he gets a chance to play soccer, but mostly he is busy taking care of his siblings, trying to earn money makeing bricks, and going to school.

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  • Global Health

He's 14. He loves soccer. He's the sole caregiver for his little twin brothers

Mahamat Djouma is one of the millions displaced by the civil war in Sudan. He is part of an especially vulnerable group — unaccompanied minors. Here is his story.

November 15, 2024
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  • Fatma Tanis and
  • Photos by Claire Harbage
Pedestrians walk along a road engulfed in thick smog in Lahore, Pakistan, on Nov. 11. Lahore, a city of 14 million people and stuffed with factories, regularly ranks among the world's most polluted cities. It's hit record levels this month.

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  • Global Health

Pakistan's smog is visible from space. This activist is 'frustrated' but won't give up

The government in Lahore has closed schools and public spaces and shut down factories. Environmental lawyer Ahmad Rafay Alam shares his perspective: "frustrated" but still fighting.

November 13, 2024
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  • Kamala Thiagarajan
Mahamat Djouma, 14, fled the war in Sudan without parents; his mother died in 2023 and his father subsequently disappeared. He came with 5-year-old twin brothers, whom he now cares for. Entesar, a 21-year-old student, also fled to escape the violence -- and was raped by three soldiers. She asked to be identified by her middle name since she has not yet told close family members about the attack.

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  • Global Health

Remarkably resilient refugees: A teen on his own, a woman who was raped

Sudan's civil war has displaced 10 million citizens. Here are profiles of two young people from the most vulnerable groups: an unaccompanied minor caring for twin brothers, a woman who was raped.

November 12, 2024
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  • Fatma Tanis and
  • Photos by Claire Harbage
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