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One lesson of Nazi atrocities is that a just social order must prevent cruelty: inside one of the women’s barracks in Auschwitz in 1945.

Political theory

Fear and freedom

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by Hans Dembowski
The one-child family was the norm in China for decades: a family in Wuhan in 2006.

Retirement provisions

From the iron rice bowl to the filial piety law

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by Felix Lee
In Rwanda, as elsewhere in Africa, lots of children are seen as a sign of prosperity.

Population growth

Global challenge

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by Samir Abi
Examining a patient in Assam.

Tuberculosis

Never disrupt treatment

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by Roli Mahajan
Diabetes leads to severe other health problems – a patient in a Zimbabwean hospital.

Chronic disease

Costly diabetes drugs

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by Jeffrey Moyo
Jeffrey Moyo
Front-line Ebola workers in the DRC benefit from unlicensed vaccine protection today.

Vaccines

A shot in the arm

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by Hannah Hussey
by Rudzani Muloiwa
by Gregory D. Hussey
by Benjamin M. Kagina
Health worker treating Ebola patient in Sierra Leone in early 2015.

Ebola

Five years later

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by Shecku Mansaray
Staff at Solutroniq.

Business incubation

Building digital nations

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by Ely Manel Faye
Indigenous women rally for better health care in Brasília, the capital of Brazil, in August 2019.

Health services

Good care for all

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by Andreas Wulf
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