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Vijay Prashad
Why Cuban Doctors Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize
25 Aug 2020
Amid continued attacks on Cuban doctors who are on the front-lines of battling COVID-19 across the world, Vijay Prashad makes a case for why they deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Cuban Doctors Land in Azerbaijan to Help Fight COVID-19
15 Jul 2020
Over 100 medical professionals from the Henry Reeve Brigade arrived in Azerbaijan on Monday. The brigade, founded by Fidel Castro in 2005, has worked in more than 25 countries during the COVID-19…
Sandipan Talukdar
Ebola: New Treatment Found Highly Effective in Congo
14 Aug 2019
In the new trial, named the PALM trial, which evaluated three Ebola antibody preparations and an anti viral drug, two were found to be highly effective in saving patients’ lives.
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With More Than 13,000 infected, Has Ebola Changed?
03 Nov 2014
More than 13,000 people have been infected by ebola – much more than all the earlier outbreaks of ebola put together. This has raised various questions. Has the nature of ebola changed? Has its…
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Why Ebola Deaths Can Reach 1 Million in 3 Months: A 4 Minute Video
04 Oct 2014
Newsclick analyses the predictions made by WHO and CDC that more than a million people are likely to be dead from ebola by January 2015. It explains why the deadly epidemic is still expanding and the…
Prabir Purkayastha
Ebola Prediction: One Million Dead by Next January
29 Sep 2014
WHO's Ebola Response Team and Centre of Disease Control, Atlanta predict that more than a million people are likely to be dead from ebola by January 2015. These are indeed grim figures and far worse…
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Poor Global Response on Ebola Spreading Epidemic
15 Sep 2014
The World Bank President Jim Yong Kim declared the world's response to the current Ebola outbreak as “disastrously inadequate”. Till now, more than 4,000 cases have been reported and 2,000 have been…
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Ebola Showing up the Global Public Health System
26 Aug 2014
The Ebola epidemic raging in various parts of Africa has seen over 2000 people already killed by the deadly virus. As the world struggles to deal with and contain further spread of the disease (which…
Amit Sengupta
Ebola Epidemic Exposes the Pathology of the Capitalist System
21 Aug 2014
On August 8th the World Health Organisation declared the West African Ebola outbreak a 'public health emergency of international concern'. The declaration came four months after the WHO reported a…