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HIV test in Cotonou

Medical services

Science-based clinic or witch doctor?

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by Karim Okanla
Syrian refugees often work as harvesters in the Bekaa Valley: women collecting onions.

Refugees

Lebanon needs help

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by Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar
Pastoralists help in many ways to preserve ecosystems and food security.

Literature

Pastoralists as stewards of the environment

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by Cornelia Heine
Praziquantal pills cure Schistosomiasis, but they are not available to all Africans.

Health care

Wormy water

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by Jutta Reinhard-Rupp
Up-to-date technology: the ward for new born babies at the Maputo Private Hospital.

Hospital financing

Closing gaps in health care

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by Julian Frede
Singapore’s government wants senior citizens’ to be secure: pensioners playing board games.

Demographic change

Singapore takes  care of elderly

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by Jun Jie Woo
Rural mothers at a paediatrics clinic run by BRAC in Afghanistan in 2009.

Fighting poverty

Tackling social exclusion

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by Jessica Hagen-Zanker
Lesotho has introduced a minimum pension for all citizens aged 70 and more years.

Historical background

“An appropriate approach”

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by Markus Loewe
Markus Loewe
Fish breeding ponds in Brazil: Aqua­culture has been spreading here since the 1990s.

Aquaculture

A trend towards ­organic fish

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by Angela Escosteguy
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