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Excavations begin at child mass grave site in Ireland
AFP, Published on 14/07/2025
» DUBLIN - Excavations begin Monday of an unmarked mass burial site at a former mother and baby home in western Ireland suspected of containing the remains of hundreds of infants and young children.
Child vaccine coverage faltering, threatening millions: study
AFP, Published on 25/06/2025
» PARIS - Efforts to vaccinate children against deadly diseases are faltering across the world due to economic inequality, Covid-era disruptions and misinformation, putting millions of lives at risk, research warned Wednesday.
Trump ramps up conflict against defiant Harvard
AFP, Published on 16/04/2025
» CAMBRIDGE (UNITED STATES) - President Donald Trump escalated his war against elite US universities Tuesday with a threat to strip Harvard's tax-exempt status if the country's most famous educational establishment refuses to submit to wide-ranging government oversight.
HIV workers race to plug funding gaps after Trump USAID cuts
Thomson Reuters Foundation, Published on 03/04/2025
» JOHANNESBURG - Tarryn Lokotsch can see the US aid money she desperately needs to help South African rape survivors sitting in her organisation's bank account, but she cannot touch a cent of it.
'Getting scary': US aid cuts undermine global fight against TB
AFP, Published on 11/03/2025
» PARIS — The Trump administration's sweeping foreign aid cuts will send tuberculosis cases and deaths soaring around the world, humanitarian workers have warned.
Indonesia debuts free health checks despite Prabowo budget cuts
Bloomberg, Published on 10/02/2025
» Indonesia began rolling out free health screenings across the country, fulfilling a popular campaign pledge by President Prabowo Subianto to boost preventative health care even as the former general reins in other spending in the world’s fourth most populous nation.
Some urgent US aid programmes cleared to restart
Reuters, Published on 08/02/2025
» American-funded aid efforts to tackle diseases such as malaria, as well as preventing newborn baby deaths and treating severe malnutrition, should resume, according to a memo from the United States government reviewed by Reuters.
Trump foreign-aid freeze leaves millions without essential drugs
Reuters and Post Reporters, Published on 28/01/2025
» The Trump administration has moved to stop the supply of lifesaving drugs for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, as well as medical supplies for newborn babies, in countries supported by USAID around the globe, a memo reviewed by Reuters shows.
Syria's military hospital where detainees were tortured, not treated
AFP, Published on 22/01/2025
» DAMASCUS - Former Syrian detainee Mohammed Najib has suffered for years from torture-induced back pain. Yet he dreaded being taken by his jailers to a military hospital, where he received beatings instead of treatment.
'Blue-eyed Korean' tasked with shaking up Seoul politics
AFP, Published on 07/11/2023
» SEOUL - South Korea-born American doctor John Linton is on a mission no other foreigner has ever undertaken in ethnically homogenous South Korea: trying to shake up the country's highly confrontational politics.