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Urgent action needed to tackle growing antimicrobial resistance threat in African region

Brazzaville – Despite notable strides made in African countries, an accelerated response to the burgeoning threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is critical to avert predictions of 4.1 million related deaths annually by 2050, with severe consequences for health care and economic stability.Through its Regional Strategy for AMR 2023–2030, World Health Organization (WHO) in the African
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Urgent, Necessary, Vital

Getty The Machinist comes at night, out of the iron dark. Cold hands, rough, but no dirt under the nails, no grease. The first taste of him is electric.On the porch, The Machinist smokes and watches the snow descend sideways through the streetlights. The cedar tree in the front yard sickles around the powerlines. Dead…
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Repairs to 1920s home ‘not urgent’, court hears

A building expert poured scorn over suggestions that a century-old house was in need of ‘urgent’ or ‘essential’ repairs. Charles Leigh-Dugmore was asked to examine the 1920s detached home in Wytham Street, Oxford, by the council’s trading standards team after its elderly homeowner allegedly came under pressure to sign an equity release scheme in order…
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The Urgent Need for More Black Therapists

In the early days of spring 2020, Shannae Donaldson, a Montreal-based marketing executive, quit her job in an act of self-preservation. The weathering effects of “an aggressive and toxic” work environment had left her with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and in need of help. Donaldson decided to seek out a therapist who would understand…
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