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World News in Brief: Funding cuts curb development, human rights in Belarus update, Ebola and mpox in Africa

World News in Brief: Funding cuts curb development, human rights in Belarus update, Ebola and mpox in Africa

Speaking in Geneva, she said the world was facing “declining respect for human rights and multilateralism”, with conflicts, debt, and shrinking development assistance threatening to reverse hard-won gains. The 38-member economic cooperation organization, OECD, projects a nine to 17 per cent fall in aid next year, and up to 25 per cent for the least-developed…

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The quiet collapse of America's reproductive health safety net

The quiet collapse of America’s reproductive health safety net

In late October, Maine Family Planning announced three rural clinics in northern Maine would close by month’s end. These primary care and reproductive health clinics served about 800 patients, many uninsured or on Medicaid.  “People don’t realize how much these clinics hold together the local health system until they’re gone,” George Hill, the group’s president…

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