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Hope in the slums of Nairobi starts to run dry

Thomson Reuters Foundation

October 14, 2014

Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. The Nairobi slums have never had reliable access to safe water. Unless the government addresses this and other basic needs, life for the city’s poorest residents cannot improve. The slums, where I grew up and now work every …

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Op-Ed

Mounting concern as crippling virus reaches Caribbean,USA

Trust.org

June 5, 2014

Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Laurence, a 58-year-old Haitian woman who works in my building, woke up with sharp pain and fever and thought she was dying. She was unable to rise from her bed or hold a glass of water because of …

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Op-Ed

If rich countries want to help Africa, stop poaching our doctors

Trust.org

October 30, 2013

Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Tangut was 30 years old and lived in the countryside 400 miles away from Gondar, the small city in northern Ethiopia where I practice dermatology. She had been itching for two years because of a treatable skin condition …

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Op-Ed

We Need Fathers in the Fight to End mother-to-child HIV Transmission

Reuters Alertnet

September 13, 2013

Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. A few years ago, I helped a mother deliver her third baby at a government clinic in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Her admission card noted that she was HIV positive – something she had discovered during her first …

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