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Health care

Transmission and implications of bilharzia

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by Jutta Reinhard-Rupp
According to the World Health Organisation, numbers of Ebola infections are rising again in West Africa.

Ebola

“Losing track means losing lives”

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by Rebecca Renz

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Better market access is one way to improve smallholders’ income and nutrition intake. Pineapple seller in Uganda.

Food and nutrition security

More money means better food

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by Katja Dombrowski
By talking to companies, NGOs can achieve improvements in working conditions: A tea plantation owned by the Unilever Group in Kenya.

Civil-society organisations

Talking to managers

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

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A Sidr survivor recalls the cyclone.

Adapting to climate change

The view from below

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by Hans Dembowski
Personal interaction on social media may have lasting impacts.

Cyberwar

Beware digital jihad

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by Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
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