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    From the Coronavirus to the Arbovirus: WHO launches bid to stop a new pandemic

    The UN health agency has launched its plan to prevent a hitherto unfamiliar virus-caused pandemic from Arbovirus strain that causes life-threatening mosquito-borne illnesses, such...
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    SouthAsia Schools Stayed Shut 35 weeks, Says UNESCO

    School closures in SouthAsia have long-term implications for its learners. Current learners in South Asia could stand to lose near a trillion dollars in...
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    A Third of the World Remains Totally Unvaccinated against COVID-19, says WHO

    In the best-case scenario, less severe variants emerge and boosters or new formulations of vaccines won’t be necessary. But, in the worst-case scenario, a...
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    Discrimination, Debt and Depression: Delhi’s Transgender people through COVID-19

    A sense of trepidation hung wordlessly in the air as volunteers milled around corridors when Aarohan’s doors reopened for staff, volunteers and members of...
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    Time Running Out to Address Afghanistan’s Hunger Crisis; Without a Functioning Central Bank, Aid Not Enough

    The drought and a shortage of funds has fuelled an economic crisis – more than 70 percent of Afghanistan’s population live in rural areas...
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    A Thing (or Two) of Beauty…… in Asia’s Forests

    A new publication has distilled evidence of how forests from Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal and Vietnam are the source of ingredients for the global...
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    WHO, India Sign Deal to Establish Global Centre for Traditional Medicine

    Around 80 per cent of the world’s population is estimated to use traditional medicine, that is also increasingly prominent in the world of modern...
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    Myanmar, Women and Drugs – An Abusive Cocktail

    Punitive drug policies have disproportionate impacts on populations facing systemic marginalisation due to their ethnicity, gender, sexuality, migration status, and their socioeconomic conditions. Women...
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    Sri Lanka’s High Grown Tea Hits 34-Year Low in August Amid Persistent Cloud Cover and Heavy Rain

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