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Medicine shortage

Zambia’s health insurance dispute leaves patients stranded

A payment dispute between Zambia’s national health insurer NHIMA and private healthcare providers is leaving patients without medicines or treatment. For many, the conflict is becoming a serious problem.

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by Derrick Silimina

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Super-rich philanthropists are a tiny minority everywhere: Aliko Dangote, Mo Ibrahim and Bill Gates at an event in New York City in 2019.

Inequality

A tale of rich and poor

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by Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Small-scale fishing still provides livelihoods in Dakar.

Income inequality

Why Africa lacks a robust middle class

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by Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Too many people cannot read: newspaper vendor in Dar es Salaam in March 2021.

Adult literacy

Getting back on track

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by Lawrence Kilimwiko
Temporary Covid-19 hospital in São Paolo.

Health care

An over-stretched system

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by Thuany Rodrigues
Pharmacist Elke Althöfer-Blautzik on an emergency mission to Mozambique in 2019.

Pharmacists in development cooperation

Essential experts

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by Christian Splett
: Children in poor countries have a much lower chance of surviving cancer than children in rich countries: Young cancer patients in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Cancer

Unaffordable treatment

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by Max Klein
by Jörg Schaaber
Delivery of Covid-19 vaccine to South Sudan in March 2021 under the COVAX initiative – but experts say COVAX is delivering far too little vaccines worldwide.

Patents

Intellectual property versus health care

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by Max Klein
by Jörg Schaaber

Covid-19

Malawi refuses expired vaccines

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by Raphael Mweninguwe
Increasing purchasing power: shoppers in the electronic goods department of a store in Accra in 2007.

Our view

Foundations of broad-based prosperity

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
More people have more choices: shoppers in Dhaka.

Growing prosperity

Middle-class lifestyles start with $ 10 per person and day

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by Homi Kharas
by Aviva Freudmann