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With Zambia’s Cholera Patients, Forced To Walk Miles For Treatment

Public health workers cleaning the streets.
Public health workers clean the streets of Kanyama township, in Lusaka, Zambia. The workers have been visiting communities to highlight the vital connection between hygiene and health safety following a cholera outbreak that began in October 2023, and which has so far killed over 700 people. Global Press Journal

People use anything they can to get the medical care they need, but some die trying.

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Economy

In Uganda’s Artisanal Mines, Where Salt Corrodes Workers Health

In Uganda’s Artisanal Mines, Where Salt Corrodes Workers Health
Workers weigh and move piles of rock salt on the shores of Lake Katwe, Uganda’s top salt-producing lake. Edna Namara/GPJ Uganda

The unlicensed workers use what they have to combat health fears in Uganda’s top salt-producing lake. A new law is supposed to offer protections. So far, little is on the way.

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