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Trump’s Defunding of UNFPA (The Huffington Post)
Article On April 3, the Trump administration defunded its contribution of US$69 million per year to UNFPA. Slashing this funding…
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Argentine Down Syndrome Cooks
Video After years of facing social and work-related discrimination, four friends with Down’s syndrome started their own pizza company in…
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Inside Venezuela’s Hidden War
Video Venezuela is in the midst of a healthcare crisis caused by a crippling lack of state resources. Doctors risk…
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Colombia’s Forgotten Crisis
Video As the international community is closely following the recent rejection of the peace deal in Colombia, another key issue…
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Latin America
Meet Cuba’s Last Water Healers (Fusion)
Feature and photos The Acuaticos are a Cuban mystical sect – some call it a religion – that believes water…
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Miss Chubby For Plus-Size Beauty
Video Paraguay's Miss Chubby beauty pageant fights against weight discrimination and questions beauty standards. Plus-size contestants are paired with a…
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Virtual Reality to Overcome Phobias
Video Psychiatrists and software designers in Argentina are developing virtual reality devices to help patients overcome phobias. Patients wear a…
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Environmental War Waged in Amazonia
Video Ecuador has been the battleground between indigenous and environmentalist groups on one side and governments and corporations drilling for…
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Eye Technology Changes Lives
Video A life-changing technology in Argentina is radically improving the lives of children with neurological diseases. The computer device Tobii…
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Analysis
Way to Go for Road Safety in China
Comment As the second Global High-Level Conference on Road Safety kicked off in Brazil’s capital until November 19, China can…
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Arab World
Muslims Tackle Reproductive Health
Article Islamic countries committed to improve women’s health - a key component of it being sexual and reproductive health and…
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Tango Can Help Parkinson Sufferers
Video Clinical studies in the US, Canada and the UK have shown that structured dancing classes help with Parkinson's. In…
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Half a Million Illegal Abortions
Feature An estimated half a million illegal abortions take place in Argentina every year, Human Rights Watch estimated in 2009,…
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Arab World
How Tobacco Companies are Aggressively Pushing into the Middle East
Feature The Middle East, which has the most rapidly growing rate of smokers on the planet, has become a lucrative…
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Analysis
China needs to curb tobacco rate
Opinion Raising taxes on tobacco alone is not enough if China, with its rising income levels, is serious about stamping…
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Arab World
Hookah Might Taste Good But It Kills
Article Policy-makers, health experts and advocacy professionals warned of the dangers of inhaling the smoke of these water pipes at…
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Argentina Lags Behind in Tobacco
Article Argentina is still the only country in Latin America and among the 10 percent in the world that did…
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Monsanto Makes Argentines Sick
Investigation There is a growing list of cases of birth defects, cancers, and other health problems that Argentinians and some…
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Arab World
Pregnant in War, a Fact of Life
Article Imagine giving birth in a refugee camp after you fled the brutal repression of an Islamic group or while…
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Arab World
Middle East, Ebola Hamper UN MDGs
Article On-going turmoil in the Middle East and the recent outbreak of Ebola are impeding the United Nations’ Millennium Development…
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