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For many in Ciudad Juarez and along the U.S.-Mexico border addiction, organized crime, gang-led violence, and corruption spawned by drug cartels have become a part of daily life.
China's outsized reaction to reporting on fake drugs obscures a real discussion about crucial problems.
The prevalence of fake drugs in Uganda is leading growing numbers back to traditional medicine.
One of the most difficult things about being HIV-positive in the Garifuna community is simply telling your friends and family.
Luleka Che started a daycare for small children to teach the lessons she wishes she had learned. Her calling is to prepare them for the reality many of the children already face—life with HIV.
Fake and substandard medications threaten the fight against malaria in the Lake Victoria Basin, but attitudes can be just as problematic.
Long waits and too few providers are consigning more and more women to illegal abortions.
In South Africa, a country with one of the most permissive abortion-access laws in the world, many women find it is easier—and faster—to get an illegal abortion instead.
Intersection of health and human rights key for first Campus Consortium student reporting fellow from Boston University.
China issues an official denial to Guardian series on counterfeit drugs--but doesn't address the scientific research linking China to fake and substandard drugs that now flood Africa.
A vast influx of Western medicine has unleashed an unregulated free-for-all in private dispensaries, critics say.
China is suspected as the source of counterfeit drugs that are holding back the fight against malaria in Africa.
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