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BBC
16 October 2014
Text / Under 800 Words
Nigeria
A nightmare scenario of Ebola raging unchecked among millions of slum-dwellers in Africa's largest city has given way to a rare example of a victory over the virus.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/a-depression-fighting-strategy-that-could-go-viral
Tina Rosenberg
The New York Times
4 December 2014
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A strategy for stopping widespread depression in developing countries should be as obvious as one for combatting epidemics. A new strategy aims to downshift jobs to local workers to act as peer therapists.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/after-the-crisis-tools-for-limiting-ebola
Tina Rosenberg
The New York Times
24 November 2015
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Westerners' fear of infection of Ebola motivated a vaccine in record time, but a preventive system put in place could ensure similar results for other viruses before they reach the same magnitude.
http://www.npr.org/2014/02/04/269551459/an-afghan-success-story-fewer-child-deaths
Sean Carberry
NPR
4 February 2014
Radio / 3-5 Minutes
Child mortality rates are decreasing in Afghanistan due to more readily available basic health care, more effective vaccinations, and locally-trained volunteer health workers.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/an-end-to-polio-in-india
Esha Chhabra
The New York Times
5 March 2014
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India has, for years, been a hotbed of polio. Supported by the WHO as well as local health-care workers, immunizations have officially rid the country of the disease. There are still challenges in maintaining records and reaching everyone, but the message continously changes and adapts.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/19/at-years-end-news-of-a-global-health-success
Tina Rosenberg
The New York Times
19 December 2012
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Child mortality rates in third-world countries are often shockingly high. But they are gradually decreasing due to efforts that target contagious diseases and more widespread health education.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/turning-to-big-big-data-to-see-what-ails-the-world
Tina Rosenberg
The New York Times
9 April 2015
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Public health, and large amounts of data behind it, is changing in today's world. The Global Burden of Disease Report, involving hundreds of scientists over the course of many years, aims to find out what makes humans sick and disabled.
http://earthzine.org/2014/03/18/twenty-buses-a-day-the-high-stakes-race-to-create-a-global-cholera-early-warning-system
Osha Gray Davidson
Earthzine
18 March 2014
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Though individual treatments are cheap, cholera is costing the third world countless lives. Using modern technology, researchers work to exterminate it and other curable diseases.
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/oct/31/ebola-nigeria-state-public-sector-calestous-juma
Calestous Juma
The Guardian
31 October 2014
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The media could help countries still affected by Ebola by focusing on Nigeria, where they defeated the virus through effective public institutions that protected the public interest, such as rejecting cash but accepting much needed health workers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/28/magazine/look-at-brazil.html
Tina Rosenberg
The New York Times
28 January 2001
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Soon, AIDS in Africa will be doing more than killing millions every year. It will destroy what there is of Africa's economy and cause further instability and, perhaps, war. But a nondescript hospital in Brazil could serve as a model for treating AIDS in Africa and worldwide.
http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/2015/3/strung-out-in-tanzania.html
Sarika Bansal
Al Jazeera
3 March 2014
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Less than 1 percent of drug addicts in Africa receive treatment because the issue is disfavored by donors. The national government of Tanzania demanded evidence-based treatment options and is curbing relapses by distributing a drug which temporarily lessens cravings.
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