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Risk of Ebola outbreaks could be reduced by understanding how ecosystems influence human health

15 Oct 2019

̽»¨Ö±²¥next Ebola outbreak could be predicted using a new model that tracks how changes to ecosystems and human societies combine to affect the spread...

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Stronger political leadership needed to close global gender divide in education – report

21 Jan 2019

̽»¨Ö±²¥poorest girls in many Commonwealth countries spend no more than five years in school, with the global target of 12 years of quality universal...

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Children of the city: tackling violence in the 21st century

06 Nov 2018

Up to one billion children worldwide are estimated to be victims of violence. Now, an intended study of 12,000 children in eight cities worldwide...

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A fishing village along Lake Victoria in the Mayuge District of Uganda, close to where researchers gathered data for the latest study.

Target ‘best connected neighbours’ to stop spread of infection in developing countries

24 Jul 2017

An innovative new study takes a network theory approach to targeted treatment in rural Africa, and finds that a simple algorithm may be more...

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