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Brazilian baby with microcephaly.

Zika virus

Virus shines light on structural problems

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by Renata Buriti
Toddler with a picture book in Aceh.

Education

Boatloads of books

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by Edith Koesoemawiria
Installing a village’s new water tank.

weltwärts volunteers

“We don’t need much money”

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by Daniel Schönig
by Yannik Bessei
Polio vaccination in Nigeria.

Health care

Medicine for all

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by Karoline Lerche
Examinating river blindness vectors in the context of a WHO programme in Côte d'Ivoire.

Medical research

Diseases of the poor

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by Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
The mosquito species Aedes albopictus can transmit yellow fever and dengue as well as other diseases.

Health

Global health challenge

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by Lea Diehl
Pesticides should only be used sparingly, but application can make sense where the dengue risk is evident: government-sponsored fogging in Aceh Province in February.

Dengue

At least 900 dead in 2015

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by Edith Koesoemawiria
A tetanus patient is treated at a GK facility in the 1990s.

Health care

“Involve the local people”

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by Zafrullah Chowdhury
A blessing and a curse: antibiotics cure serious diseases, but resistances eventually develop, rendering the drugs useless.

Medication

The problem of antibiotic resistance

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by Christian Wagner-Ahlfs
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