Nigeria: Analysis - Sub-Saharan Africa Must Pay More Attention to Water, Sanitation, Hygiene
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) are the most crucial elements of development. Read More
Finding coronavirus superspreaders may be key to halting a second wave
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A skiing trip, a wedding, a choir practice: what these events have in common is that they were all occasions of coronavirus…
HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 Require Global Solidarity
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Reading Time: < 1 minute For over three decades, Africa has fought HIV/AIDS and is now battling another pandemic, COVID-19, that has shattered Read More
Scotland’s drug deaths crisis 'worsened by failure to provide clean needles'
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Scotland’s drug deaths crisis could be worsened by a failure to provide clean needles to users who inject. Read More
Trump’s devastating effect on global health
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Susan Kihika’s phone was ringing off the hook last month. “I was getting calls from Nigeria, from South Africa, from the UK…
Short Film Saving Chintu Beautifully Explores Societal Issues Around Homosexuality, Child Adoption And HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Saving Chintu is a film that has drawn my interest ever since I read about its making. Read More
How Infectious Diseases Like Covid-19 Get Their Names—And Why It’s Important To Use Them Correctly
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The viruses have official names: SARS-CoV-2 and HIV. The associated diseases also have official names: Covid-19 and AIDS. Read More
4 in 10 Black sexual minority men have faced police discrimination, survey analysis finds
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Some 43% of Black men who identify as gay, bisexual or other sexual minority say they experienced discrimination from police Read More
Bill Gates: How HIV/AIDS prepared us to tackle COVID-19
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Around 2 million people a year used to die from HIV/AIDS. Now that figure has more than halved. So what changed? Read More
World Hepatitis Day: fast-tracking elimination of hepatitis B among mothers and children
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The proportion of children under five years of age chronically infected with hepatitis B (HBV) dropped to just under 1% in 2019…