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News Articles: Goats and Soda

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  • Global Health

7 global buzzwords for 2025: From 'techquity' to 'climate displacement' to 'belonging'

What words will be buzzing about in the global health and development hive in the year ahead? Our experts have nominations for your consideration.

January 12, 2025
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Joti, a young man who lives in Panama's Ngäbe-Buglé territory, was diagnosed with HIV 9 years ago. When he told his family, his mother banned him from the family home out of an unfounded fear that his very presence would put others at risk of infection. He asked that he be identified only by his first name to avoid further discrimination in his village for his diagnosis

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  • Global Health

Why are so many indigenous Panamanians contracting HIV — and dying of AIDS?

The government provides HIV medicines free of charge. Yet in one indigenous territory, cases and deaths are increasing at an alarming rate.

January 11, 2025
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By:
  • Adam Williams
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and President Jimmy Carter met 20 years ago and forged a close relationship. Says Tedros: "One thing that came to my mind today, attending the funeral, was President Carter's humility. He was a humble leader and respects anyone, whether they are rich or poor or powerful or not. For him, it didn't matter."

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  • Global Health

World Health Organization head on bond with Jimmy Carter: 'I consider him my mentor'

The World Health Organization leader worked with Carter for 20 years to fight the world's "neglected" diseases. After attending Carter's funeral, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus shared memories.

January 09, 2025
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
The war in Sudan has taken a toll on the country's medical profession -- interrupting medical education and driving doctors out of the country. Above: 36-year-old doctor and Sudanese refugee Yassin Ishag Dawod is now a refugee in Chad; above, he gets an intravenous drip ready while attending a patient in the Farchana refugee camp.

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  • Global Health

They were going to be doctors. Instead, they had to dodge bombs and flee war

The war in Sudan has taken a toll on the medical profession. Health workers have fled the country, and those seeking to complete their medical education are finding it an increasingly impossible task.

January 07, 2025
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  • Maria Isabel Barros Guinle

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  • Opinion

We asked global thinkers how to improve life on earth in 2025. Here are their wishes

What's one thing humankind can do to help heal the world? The wishes cover everything from upholding Jimmy Carter's legacy to cleaning up Mt. Everest. Readers, we'd like to hear your wishes as well.

January 06, 2025
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By:
  • NPR Staff
This monkey stole a pair of glasses (top left), tried them on — and returned them for a reward of mango juice. Spectacle-stealing, juice-loving monkeys are an issue in in Vrindavan, India.

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  • Global Health

How do you keep monkeys from making mischief?

In one Indian town, monkeys will steal your glasses — and give them back if you toss them a container of mango juice. It's one more sign of the impact of urbanization on the wild.

January 05, 2025
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By:
  • Omkar Khandekar
A physician in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, examines an x-ray of a tuberculous patient.

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  • Global Health

Tuberculosis rates plunge when families living in poverty get a monthly cash payout

A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.

January 03, 2025
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
Democratic Republic of the Congo - vector map

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  • Global Health

What was 'Disease X' and what can we learn from it?

Four weeks after a puzzling outbreak was reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization has identified the cause.

December 31, 2024
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  • Gabrielle Emanuel
Clockwise from upper left: Nomads from the Peul tribe give blood samples to be tested for sleeping sickness. In 2024, Chad got rid of one form of the disease. Brazil and Timor Leste eliminated lymphatic filariasis, the disfiguring parasite that causes a condition known as elephantiasis. A doctor sees children during a leprosy screening campaign; Jordan eliminated the disease this year. An elderly farmer woman receives an eye exam for trachoma in Vietnam — which along with India and Pakistan — eradicated th…

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  • Global Health

9 countries said goodbye to a devastating disease in 2024

Nine countries eliminated a disease in 2024. Here's how Pakistan pulled it off — fulfilling a young boy's dream of eliminating blindness caused by bacterial infections.

December 30, 2024
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  • Gabrielle Emanuel
Clockwise from upper left: Chicken-sizing will keep you fit. Educator Mo Pandiarajan excitedly shows his students a view of the specimen in a foldscope — a microscope made of paper. Bolivian skateboarders show off their moves at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., in June. A couple holding hands on Pocitos Beach in Montevideo, Uruguay, captivated the photographer.

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  • Global Health

Stories that gave us joy (and a new workout routine) in 2024

In a year where there was a plethora of bad news around the world — climate, conflict and more — there were moments of joy in our global coverage. Take a look!

December 29, 2024
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  • Marc Silver
Scenes from popular Instagram posts from Goats and Soda: from left: a school for somewhat clueless men trying to master the art of the ponytail, harvesting water from fog in Kenya, COVID commentary (from our editor) and bold Bolivian skateboarders.

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  • Global Health

Instagram reel roundup: School for dads, COVID conundrum, skateboarders in skirts

The most popular Instagram reels from our Goats and Soda team: Bolivia's bold women skateboarders, ponytail-making lessons, a perplexing COVID situation, fog harvesting.

December 28, 2024
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By:
  • Ben de la Cruz and
  • Marc Silver
Scenes from some of the most popular TikToks from the Global South in 2024: a dancing teen from the Philippines; that adorable baby pygmy hippo in Thailand; Mr. Bean makes a guest appearance in a TikTok by Khaby Lame.

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  • Global Health

Top global TikToks in 2024: Mr. Bean disciple, lip-synch for their life, baby hippo!

Scenes from some of the most popular TikToks from the Global South in 2024: a dancing teen from the Philippines; an homage to Mr. Bean, that cute baby pygmy hippo.

December 27, 2024
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Clockwise from upper left: elephants are clashing with villagers in Zambia; a Sudanese refugee in Chad; 15-year-old Paris Lekuuk of Kenya has decided to start his schooling and is in third grade; artifacts from an Afghan museum honoring those who died in attacks and conflict.<br>

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  • Global Health

Global stories from 2024 that we loved ... but that you may have missed

These stories didn't get huge numbers of views, but readers who found them stayed with them for what qualifies as an eternity on the online clock. Here are our underappreciated favorites.

December 27, 2024
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By:
  • Marc Silver
Vezo 'ocean monitors' dive on a coral reef in Madagascar's Barren Isles. The data they collect is used to evaluate ocean health and improve conservation decisions.

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  • Global Health

Photos: Fishermen, known as 'Sea Nomads,' dive to protect ocean life in Madagascar

They make their living off the sea, but their catch is dwindling. So these traditional fisherfolk are taking steps to preserve both sea life — and their livelihood.

December 26, 2024
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By:
  • Julie Bourdin and
  • Sira Thierij
<em>All We Imagine as Light,</em> a film about working class women in Mumbai, won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival this year. From left: actor Divya Prabha, director Payal Kapadia, and actors Chhaya Kadam and Kani Kusruti pose during the Cannes closing ceremony.

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  • Global Health

An Indian movie, loved abroad, is snubbed at home for Oscar submission

All We Imagine as Light explores the lives of working-class women in Mumbai and won the Grand Prix at Cannes. But it was deemed not Indian enough to submit to the Oscars. 

December 24, 2024
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid
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