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  2022-10-18

  Gates Foundation pledges over $1 billion to eradicate polio

  The organisation has pledged $1.2 billion to immunise children against the polio virus around the world, with a focus on Pakistan, one of the few countries where polio remains endemic.

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  2022-09-05

  Low-quality medicines smuggled from Iran pose danger in Afghanistan

  Low-quality and expired medications endanger patients' health and undermine Afghanistan's own pharmaceutical industry, doctors and officials say.

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  2022-08-01

  International aid saves 2.5 million Afghans from extreme hunger in western region

  The World Food Programme is providing monthly cash and food assistance to needy families across Afghanistan, reaching 15 million Afghans since the beginning of 2021.

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  2021-12-13

  After TTP calls off truce, gunmen target polio vaccinators, police

  Past peace agreements with the TTP failed to restore peace and instead emboldened and strengthened the militant group, victims of terrorism and civil society activists say.

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  2021-11-01

  Mental anguish surges among girls as the Taliban ban on schooling sinks in

  Barred by the Taliban from going to school past 6th grade, girls are increasingly experiencing mental problems while they stay home as their hopes and dreams fade under the new regime.

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  2021-10-11

  How the pandemic exposed the underlying chaos within the Iranian regime

  The COVID-19 health crisis has laid bare the growing dysfunction within the regime, as various parts of the Iranian government trade blame and use disinformation to cover up failures.

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  2021-07-16

  WHO chief urges transparency from China in COVID origin investigation

  Officials say a prior push to rule out the possibility that COVID-19 might have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology had been 'premature'.

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  2021-07-07

  China's questionable vaccines slow Pakistan's COVID-19 fight

  Concerns over the efficacy of Chinese-made vaccines -- donated as part of Beijing's vaccine diplomacy -- are slowing efforts to counter the coronavirus in Pakistan.

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  2021-06-30

  China's COVID-19 'global public good' turning a bad situation worse?

  Infection rates are spiking in countries that relied on Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines, while leaders in Beijing continue to tout their country's 'greatness' in defeating the virus.

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  2021-06-11

  United States to donate 500 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to world

  It represents the largest single purchase and donation of COVID-19 vaccines by any single country ever. Pfizer jabs will start being sent out to the world's poorest countries in August.