Health
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Alarm in China that efforts to control Chikungunya virus are infringing on rights
Many say control measure for mosquito-borne disease hark back to the zero-Covid era, in which people’s daily l…
- Air pollution, Delhi, Environment, Farming, Health, India, Pollution, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
How farm fires intensify Delhi’s post-monsoon smog problem
Extreme air pollution from farming fires meets high population density, causing substantial harm to healthThe …
- Americas, Cambodia, Colombia, Drugs, Ecuador, Endangered species, Health, Indigenous peoples, Mental health, Plants, South America holidays, Travel, World news
Amazon Indigenous peoples can benefit from ‘ayahuasca tourism’ | Letters
Visitors staying at ‘healing retreats’ bring vital income to the diverse cultures of the region, writes Enrico…
- Health, Mental health, NHS, Psychiatry, Race, Society, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, World news
Suman Fernando obituary
My friend and colleague Suman Fernando, who has died aged 92, had an international reputation in the field of …
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‘Start exercising!’: secrets of Thailand’s 105-year-old athletics champion
A recent winner of four Masters Games gold medals, Sawang Janpram began competing at 97 – motivated by his dau…
- British empire, Children, Colonialism, Food, Health, India, Kylian Mbappé, Pensions, Second world war, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, UK news, Women
Britain’s bonfire of the atrocities | Brief letters
Destroyed documents | Football shirt dilemma | Wednesday misery | Awkward advert placementAngela Blazy-O’Reill…
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Toxic tofu? How plastic waste from the west fuels food factories in Indonesia
Tofu factory owners in Indonesia’s East Java feed their boilers with tonnes of foreign plastics each week to p…
- Cold war, Communism, Education, Environment, Europe, Geology, Health, Kazakhstan, Nuclear waste, Nuclear weapons, Russia, Science, Soil, South and Central Asia, Ukraine, Waste, World news
Atomic Secrets: a Chornobyl scientist warns of a toxic future
Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, …
- Cold war, Communism, Education, Environment, Europe, Geology, Health, Kazakhstan, Nuclear waste, Nuclear weapons, Russia, Soil, South and Central Asia, Ukraine, World news
Atomic Secrets: a Chornobyl scientist warns of a toxic future
Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, …
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‘Fruit of the devil’: Hainan’s betel nut sellers suffer from stuttering economy
Despite its links to oral cancer, people in Hainan have for centuries produced and eaten betel nuts, which giv…
- Afghanistan, Global development, Global health, Health, Infant and child mortality, Infectious diseases, Malaria, Malnutrition, Polio, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Trump administration, US foreign policy, USAid, Women, World Health Organization, World news
Millions of Afghans lose access to healthcare services as USAID cuts shut clinics
Fears of surge in malnutrition, measles, malaria and polio as 206 World Health Organization facilities forced …
- Global development, Global health, Health, HPV vaccine, India, Society, South and Central Asia, Vaccines and immunisation, World news
India trains thousands of medics to promote vaccine in huge push to end cervical cancer
Vast scheme aims to counter disinformation and increase awareness in country where low HPV vaccine take-up mea…
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Shortsighted Taiwan may have lessons for the world as a preventable disease skyrockets
Up to 90% of young people in Taiwan have myopia but eye experts say the growing global trend can be reversedIn…
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‘People fear eating, drinking and going outside’: anxiety stalks Indian village after mystery illness kills 17 people
Initial suspicions of food poisoning have been ruled out but the authorities are taking no chances as they wai…
- Aids and HIV, Global development, Health, India, Sex work, Sexual health, Society, South and Central Asia, Transgender, World news
Diesel, oil, condoms: transgender sex workers teach India’s truckers about Aids
On the road for weeks at a time, STDs are rife among lorry drivers. Now, volunteers are teaching them about sa…