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How blood markers and wealth predict future health problems

Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) discovered that wealth plays a crucial role in seeking preventive healthcare. However, this was a secondary find, as their primary focus was on the concept of biomarkers predicting the development of health problems and the need for future treatments. It is quite common for studies to find […]

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What explains Africa’s successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic?

In this opinion piece, Prof. Agnes Binagwaho, M.D., MPEd, Ph.D. — vice-chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity in Kigali, Rwanda — and her research associate Kedest Mathewos explain why African countries fared much better than their Western counterparts in the fight against COVID-19. In 2019, the Global Health Security Index ranked countries according […]

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US election 2020: The importance of sexual and reproductive rights

Nadine Dirks is an intersectional feminist, writer, and advocate for sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR). In this opinion piece, she shares her views on unsafe abortions as a public health issue. Researchers have referred to unsafe abortions as a “preventable pandemic” — one that affects the health and lives of women, transgender people, and […]