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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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Meet Uganda’s Women Taxi Drivers, Steering Change In Male-Dominated Industry

Birabwa Hajara takes the driver’s seat in a minivan at Kibuye Taxi Park on Entebbe Road in Kampala.
Birabwa Hajara takes the driver’s seat in a minivan at Kibuye Taxi Park on Entebbe Road in Kampala. Edna Namara/GPJ

Low pay, sexual harassment and job instability haven’t stopped women from pursuing opportunities in the male-dominated public transport sector.

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Uber-Appalling Bogota Taxis Bring Competition On Themselves

Taxis in Bogota, Colombia
Taxis in Bogota, Colombia CucombreLibre

Arguments for blocking the car service Uber are based exclusively on the fact that it brings unwelcome competition to cab drivers, and not at all on the welfare of drivers and passengers.

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