Pferde brachten das Internet nach Tuschetien, in die hinterste Ecke des georgischen Kaukasus. Dort füllt es die Betten der Herbergen, rettet Leben und vertreibt speziell im Winter die Einsamkeit aus den Herzen der Menschen.
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More than 60 percent of those infected with HIV now receive regular antiretroviral treatment. But despite medical advancements, leading a healthy life with HIV can be very hard. World in Progress meets Minky Sithole, who fends for her family in a drought-stricken community in eSwatini and founded a self-help group for those infected with the virus.
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Half of the world’s population is not yet connected to the internet. Many are poor and live in places with bad infrastructure. A pilot project that’s been bringing the web to rural Tanzania might be an example of the way forward for other places as well. The reporting was supported by the Internet Society.
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Weakly regulated painkillers are causing untold damage in West Africa, but stricter controls could have dire consequences for patients. Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt unpicks an opioid crisis even more complex than America’s.
Ayao* is a tall and well-built 15-year-old, and like many his age, he is very particular about his appearance. He wears a white T-shirt with a colourful design on the front, white trousers and Kappa slip-on sandals. He likes to put a lot of effort into grooming his stylishly cut hair. When I meet him at his family’s simple one-storey brick house in Lomé, Togo’s capital, he stands in his room looking into a tiny mirror, wincing as the comb gets stuck.
Ayao works for a company that sells drinking water. He gets up at five to load transport tricycles with heavy bags of water sachets, and then delivers them to shops in the local area. Before starting this morning, he took two white tramadol pills, each with a stated dose of 225 mg.
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Liberia was devastated by the Ebola epidemic that swept across West Africa in 2014-15. But more than four years after the end of the outbreak, the country’s health system is still struggling to get back on its feet. Many public hospitals are out of drugs, and some don’t even have basic essentials like surgical gloves.
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In January, scientists announced that, for the first time, they had found a deadly strain of Ebola in a bat in Liberia. It’s a significant discovery that could shed light on how the virus infects humans. But in Liberia, where bushmeat is a major source of protein, it doesn’t appear to have weakened people’s appetites for bats. Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt reports from Gbarnga, Liberia.
Learning by dying, sagen die Liberianer – was haben die Menschen gelernt aus der Ebola Epidemie vor 5 Jahren? Vor fünf Jahren begann sich das Ebola Virus rapide in Westafrika auszubreiten, mehr als 11000 Menschen starben, knapp die Hälfte davon in Liberia.
Die Epidemie zerstörte das Gesundheitssystem des Landes und konnte erst unter Kontrolle gebracht werden, als die internationale Gemeinschaft darin eine Gefahr für die ganze Welt erkannte und mehr als 3,5 Milliarden Euro zur Bekämpfung des Virus zur Verfügung stellte. Heute allerdings fühlt sich das Land von der internationalen Gemeinschaft vernachlässigt. Liberia steckt in einer Wirtschaftskrise. In den Krankenhäusern fehlen Medikamente und Strom. Nach wie vor konsumieren Liberianer so genanntes Buschfleisch, wie Affen, Nager oder Fledermäuse, die das Ebola Virus und auch neuartige Erreger in sich tragen können.
Doch die Erfahrungen, die Ärzte, Pfleger und Gesundheitsbeamten während der Epidemie sammelten, sie bilden ein einzigartiges, wertvolles Kapital: Learning by dying, sagte man damals in Liberia, lernen durch sterben.Was also hat die Welt gelernt vom großen Ebola Ausbruch vor fünf Jahren? Haben Überlebende gegen Stigmatisierung zu kämpfen und wären Ärzte und Pfleger heute besser gegen einen neuen Ausbruch vorbereitet? Was ist übrig geblieben von den Milliarden, die damals in das Land flossen? Unsere Reporter waren 2014 mehr als zwei Monate in Liberia. Nun kehrten sie dorthin zurück – während das Ebola Virus im Osten der Demokratischen Republik Kongo wieder neue Opfer forderte.
Stanley Juah lost his wife and four children when Ebola swept across his native Liberia in 2014. The virus ravaged West Africa, killing 11,000 people in the worst outbreak in history. Five years on, Stanley is trying to rebuild his life and start a new family.
The Lancet, World Report, VOLUME 393, ISSUE 10181, APRIL 20, 2019
Years after the west Africa Ebola virus epidemic, Liberia’s health system still carries the burden of the deadly outbreak. Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt reports from Gbarnga, Liberia.
Sex talk is taboo in the Johannesburg township of Soweto. Businesswoman Mmathabo Ndlovu says that silence and lack of awareness leads to an array of social and health problems. So, she’s opened the township’s first adult shop to get people talking.
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