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As Ghana becomes the first country to receive vaccines from the UN-led COVAX scheme, the West has been warned that a post-COVID economic recovery is dependent on vaccinating the developing world.

If there was any doubt that Nigeria is a failing state, the politics and pathology of the cow business now make it manifestly so. Nigeria is strutting towards a possible implosion on account of growing lawlessness. In spite of many years of denial, leading members of the ruling APC now concede the obvious: Nigeria is largely an ungoverned territory. The Governor of Kaduna State, recently at a national dialogue, pointedly described Nigeria as a lawless state. He pointed to the absence of the mon...

 E-Mail IMAGE: 3D computer-generated image of a cluster of rod-shaped, drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, the pathogen responsible for causing the disease tuberculosis. Image courtesy of the CDC. view more  Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Susan Dorman, M.D., an infectious disease physician at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), was recently awarded a 10-year, $9.9 million contract by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to run...

Hello Everyone, Im Ugur Gallenkus from Istanbul, Turkey. I create collages juxtaposing two images, including the work of some of today’s most intrepid photojournalists. Im trying to show the important issues our world is facing, such as social injustice, war, and climate change, etc., by putting two pictures side-by-side within a single frame. By doing this, I aim to show the contrasts between the two different worlds we live in and think about making decisions that will minimize these proble...

For almost a decade, the US market has outperformed both developed and emerging-market equities. If Biden reenters trade agreements like TPP, foreign stocks can outperform US stocks this year. Commodity exporters and Asian importers are primed to benefit the most, John Traynor says.   Traders work on the main trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange March 21, 2007. Brendan McDermid/Reuters International equities could do bet...

 E-Mail What The Study Did: Using COVID-19 data, this observational study looked at what are the independent associations of voluntary behavioral change and legal restrictions, such as state-mandated school closings, with the subsequent spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. Authors: Frederick J. Zimmerman, Ph.D., of the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA in Los Angeles, is the corresponding author. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https:/

February 18, 2021 Since the beginning of the pandemic, Covid-19 has been a great highlighter of inequality. While anyone regardless of wealth, gender, nationality, or age—can get the virus, disadvantaged communities and individuals by and large are paying a higher price. Among the inequalities is the gap between wealthy and poor countries in accessing vaccines. Not only do lower-income countries have fewer choices of vaccines—having to rely on those that don’t require extremely low temper...

France argues that richer countries should redistribute vaccine reserves to Africa, but fails to win support

France argues that richer countries should redistribute vaccine reserves to Africa, but fails to win support

Global health officials are welcoming the "growing movement behind vaccine equity" as a desperately needed measure to protect everyone, including Americans.