Boy kept in solitary confinement wins £31,500 payout
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe UK government has agreed to pay £31,500 compensation after accepting that a 15-year-old boy with serious mental health problems was subjected…
Body found in Norwich river identified as missing mother Gaynor Lord, police say
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA body found in the River Wensum in Norwich on Friday has been formally identified as missing mother-of-three Gaynor Lord, police have said….
Overseas staff 'exploited and trapped' at UK care home
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteCare home staff have told the BBC they feel exploited and trapped by thefirm that brought them to the UK to work….
Libya migrant tragedy: Rescuers spot 'deflated rubber boat' in huge 2.5m waves as 61 dead
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA search and rescue team responding to a sinking where 61 migrants died saw a ‘deflated rubber boat’ in high waves, it has…
Girls More Than Twice As Likely To Contract HIV, UNICEF Study Finds
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteGirls are more than twice as likely to contract HIV than their male counterparts, a recent UNICEF analysis suggests. Read More
HIV: Three trials to watch in 2024
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe year 2023 started with disappointing news for the field of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) research after Janssen’s Phase III vaccine trial…
27% OF PREGNANT WOMEN IN SOUTH AFRICA LIVING WITH HIV – NEW SURVEY
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFindings from South Africa’s most recent Antenatal HIV Sentinel Survey show that more than a quarter (27.5%) of pregnant women in the country…
Survivors of disfiguring condition hail addition to WHO neglected diseases list
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor the first time in six years a new condition has been added to the World Health Organization’s list of neglected tropical…
Israeli airstrikes kill at least 110 Palestinians in northern Gaza, says health ministry in Hamas-run Strip
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAirstrikes in the Gaza Strip have killed at least 110 people across the last 24 hours, as Israel’s leadership faces growing international pressure for…
Albanian asylum seeker who died on Bibby Stockholm treated ‘like an animal’, says sister
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn Albanian asylum seeker who died on the Bibby Stockholm barge said migrants on board were being treated “like animals”, his sister…