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WATCH: One Incredible Doctor Provides Safety & Healthcare to 90,000 Displaced People

For her lifetime dedication to providing safety and healthcare to 90,000+ internally displaced persons at her camp in Somalia, Dr. Hawa Abdi was honored with the 2013 Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards’ Fern Holland Aw...
by Natasha Lipman
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WATCH: What is the “Zambulance”?

How do you get an ambulance to someone in need on dirt roads in the middle of Africa? Well, a Zambulance. Most people never consider the incredible logistics behind the ambulance system in the industrialized world, or just take...
by Conor Sullivan
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Celebrities, Mental Illness and the Public Habit of Interference

One in four people will suffer from a mental health problem at some point in their life. For people living in crisis or war situations, this figure gets much higher. It certainly seems to be higher for celebrities compared to t...
by Katie O'Reilly-Boyles
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Can the Movie “Elysium” Explain Immigration Today?

Elysium, a movie set in the year 2155 starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, takes a stab at the health care system in the United States, but it also offers an insight into the country’s immigration system if comprehensive...
by Robert Valencia
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Obamacare-The Democrats On Thin Ice?

The recent implementation of Obama’s healthcare law has been aptly omnipresent in the American media sphere. The flawed rollout has seen millions of people lose their insurance coverage, problems with signing up on the websit...
by Simon Fraser
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China’s trade-off: Economic growth versus migrant welfare

Migrants in China often have to work long hours, are underpaid and are hired illegally, not bound by an authorised labour contract. Having to work in hazardous work conditions, sometimes with only a few days off a year, fallin...
by Helen Hawgood
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