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Food safety: 1 in 10 people worldwide fall ill from unsafe food each year
Three-year-old Fatima loved the street food her grandmother bought on the way home from school in Dhaka. The samosas were…
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Food fortification: Adding micronutrients to prevent deficiencies worldwide
Twelve-year-old Anjali sat in class, but her mind felt foggy. She couldn’t concentrate on the math problems in front of…
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Floods: Most frequent disaster affecting 2 billion people worldwide
Amina Bibi stood on the roof of her home, watching the brown water rise. It had been raining for three…
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Financial protection: When healthcare costs destroy families financially
Maria Santos watched her daughter struggle to breathe. Five-year-old Isabella had developed pneumonia, her fever climbing dangerously high. Maria rushed…
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Female genital mutilation: 230 million affected—ending harmful practice by 2030
Catherine Meng’anyi was six years old when the women came for her. They held her down while she screamed. The…
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Electromagnetic fields: Invisible waves everywhere—what you need to know
The new cell tower installed three months ago stood directly across from her bedroom window, its red warning lights blinking…
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Earthquakes: Nearly 750,000 people died between 1998-2017—125 million affected by the sudden disaster
Dr. Aisha Mahmoud was performing a cesarean section when the hospital began to shake. It was 4:17 AM on February…
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Eye care, vision impairment and blindness: At least 1 billion people have vision problems that could be prevented or fixed
Ten-year-old Amara squinted at the blackboard from the back row of her classroom in rural Uganda. The teacher had written…
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Epilepsy: 50 million people worldwide have seizures—but three quarters can’t get treatment
Twelve-year-old Kofi collapsed during morning assembly at his school in rural Ghana. His body stiffened, then began jerking uncontrollably. Foam…
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Environmental health: Nearly one in four deaths worldwide are linked to unhealthy environments
Eight-year-old Aisha woke up struggling to breathe. Her mother, Mariam, heard the familiar wheeze from across their small apartment in…
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Energy and health: 2.4 billion people still cook with polluting fuels—killing 3.2 million yearly
Every morning before dawn, Fatima Diallo wakes her three children and starts the day’s first task: cooking breakfast over an…
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Emergency and critical care: Over half of deaths in low-income countries could be prevented with better emergency systems
Sarah Kiptoo’s water broke at 2 a.m., three weeks before her due date. The 23-year-old first-time mother in rural Kenya…
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Echinococcosis: The parasitic tapeworm that grows silently in your liver for years
Jamila Yusuf spent fifteen years wondering why she always felt tired. The 42-year-old shepherd from rural Kyrgyzstan attributed her fatigue…
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Ebola virus disease: The deadly hemorrhagic fever we’re learning to fight with vaccines and monoclonal antibodies
Dr. Fatoumata Koroma will never forget the day Ebola arrived at her clinic in rural Guinea. It was March 2014.…
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Drugs (psychoactive): 296 million people used drugs in 2021—39.5 million affected by drug use disorders
Sarah Mitchell started using prescription painkillers after a car accident left her with chronic back pain. At first, the opioids…
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