Dennis Osadebe
- December 28, 2025
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Twins’ Peaks: The Gilbertson Brothers Want to Rewrite Your Country’s Map
Two brothers, both mechanical engineers, are climbing many of the world’s tall peaks to prove they have been measured incorrectly.
- November 22, 2025
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Lemurs in Madagascar Face an Unexpected Killer
Thousands of the endangered primates end up on the dinner plates of people in the upper rung of the country’s society who have money to spare.
- October 27, 2025
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Diphtheria, a Once Vanquished Killer of Children, Is Resurgent
A Somali hospital ward packed with gasping children shows how war, climate and mistrust of vaccines is fueling the disease’s return.
- October 25, 2025
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In Fight Against Malaria, an Unexpected — and Snuggly — Shield
Treating baby wraps with a mosquito repellent shows promising protection against a top killer of children.
- September 24, 2025
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Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.
Low- and middle-income countries will be able to purchase an effective preventative at a reduced price. The arrangements may help stem the epidemic 40 years after it began.
- September 15, 2025
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When a Simple Swim Carries a Risk of Dangerous Illness
The parasitic infection schistosomiasis affects an estimated 200 million people globally, many of them children. But campaigns to identify and treat it face formidable hurdles.
- August 18, 2025
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A New Way to Reduce Children’s Deaths: Cash
Simply giving money to poor families at certain times reduced deaths among young children by nearly half, a new study found.
- August 15, 2025
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A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply
The dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has disrupted the global supply chain that provides a therapeutic food, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.
- July 9, 2025
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How Elephants Say They Like Them Apples
Researchers found that the animals are capable of using their trunks to make a range of gestures that express their intentions and wants.
- June 18, 2025
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Regulators Approve Lenacapavir for H.I.V. Prevention
The drug could change the course of the AIDS epidemic. But the Trump administration has gutted the programs that might have paid for it in low-income countries.
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Cameroon
Donald J
Drugs (Pharmaceuticals)
Foreign Aid
Health Care Workers
Malaria
President's Malaria Initiative
Trump
United States Agency for International Development
United States International Relations
United States Politics and Government
