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    Pets Help AIDS Survivors Through Two Pandemics

    A study examining the role of pets during both, the COVID-19 and the HIV/AIDS pandemics has thrown up interesting observations and could reignite the...
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    COVID-19

    Strongmen Versus Strong Women – How Differently Did They Handled COVID-19?

    A new research study offers an analysis of the pandemic response of 91 nations between January and December 2020 and has determined that certain...
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    As costs of extreme weather events are rise rapidly and as campaigners urge for a loss and damage finance facility ahead of COP27, an...
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    US Federal Reserve Announces Steep Interest Rate Shock

    The unexpected raise of the benchmark borrowing rate by 0.75 percentage points is the highest hike by the US federal reserve since November 1994....
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    Elder Abuse: Human Rights Have an Expiration Date

    The United Nations foresees an increase in elder abuse because of the ageing populations: the global population of people aged 60 years and older...
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    Health

    Will Monkeypox be declared an Emergency of International Concern?

    A WHO meeting is due on 23 June to assess if the outbreak of Monkeypox is public health emergency of international concern. So far...
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    Accountability

    Food Giants Reap Enormous Profits During Times of Crisis

    The pandemic initially exposed cracks in our supposedly efficient industrialized food system through supply chain breakdowns, worker shortages and trade restrictions. Now, we can add high food prices and growing inequality to...
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    Air

    Indians Could Live Another Five Years If The Air Was Cleaner, Say Chicago Researchers

    ….. and residents of the state of Delhi could live another 10 years, according to the researchers who have worked out the Air Quality...
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