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'It Was Sudden': Africa CDC Director-General On How US DOGE Aid Cuts Reshaped The Continent

You wake up the morning time you are informed that they stopped program to your country and you can imagine when you are head of state when you're a minister for the longest time you didn't invest in your health system for the longest time partners were coming coming to tell you don't worry we have money for you for HIV for TB for all other diseases and you have to face this issue you have to go to clinics to say to people will continue to provide commodities without knowing what you will do. It was a shock.

It's Been a Minute

Would you let your kids play football?

We're getting more and more evidence there might be like no amount of football that is actually safe for people to play.

TED

We’ve Solved Many Medical Mysteries. Where Are the Cures? | Saloni Dattani | TED

It took foreign aid and philanthropy to fund the research to test it. And it literally took decades to reach the children who needed it. How could we let that happen? How could it take so long to test a vaccine that had already been developed, while half a million children were dying from malaria every year?

Code Switch

Freedom from fatness: Why GLP-1s go after Black bodies

Weight loss is not reparations. What we need is compassion and care and the understanding that people can be healthy at any size.

TED Radio Hour

Trusting medicine in an age of doubt

Everyone has their own story. Everyone has their own reasons for not being vaccinated or getting vaccinated. And most of what I did during that time was just hear someone out that I wouldn't normally write off. That was the most important thing that I did. It wasn't what I said. It was what I did around listening.

TED Radio Hour

Trusting medicine in an age of doubt

Everyone has their own story. Everyone has their own reasons for not being vaccinated or getting vaccinated. And most of what I did during that time was just hear someone out that I would normally write off. That was the most important thing that I did. It wasn't what I said. It was what I did around listening.

TED Radio Hour

Trusting medicine in an age of doubt

It wasn't that he was just reluctant to get himself vaccines or to get his future children vaccinated. It was that he had questions, concerns, misinformation buried deep down for which he needed an expert like myself to answer without scorn and without judgment.

TED Radio Hour

Trusting medicine in an age of doubt

Everyone has their own story. Everyone has their own reasons for not being vaccinated or getting vaccinated. And most of what I did during that time was just hear someone out that I wouldn't normally hear. And that was the most important thing that I did. It wasn't what I said. It was what I did around listening.

TED Radio Hour

Trusting medicine in an age of doubt

What I didn't necessarily realize before that moment was that listening was the biggest part. Everyone has their own story. Everyone has their own reasons for not being vaccinated or getting vaccinated. And most of what I did during that time was just hear someone out that I would normally write off. That was the most important thing that I did. It wasn't what I said. It was what I did around listening.

TED Radio Hour

Trusting medicine in an age of doubt

It wasn't that he was just reluctant to get his self vaccines or to get his future children vaccinated. It was that he had questions, concerns, misinformation buried deep down for which he needed an expert like myself to answer without scorn and without judgment.

TED Radio Hour

Trusting medicine in an age of doubt

We were too busy publishing our data in world-renowned journals, kind of talking to ourselves.

TED

How I Built a Machine That Feeds Millions | Felix Brooks-church | TED

If you want to get nutrients into people, the most efficient way isn't to change the food that they eat, but instead to improve the daily food that they already rely on.

TED

How I Built a Machine That Feeds Millions | Felix Brooks-church | TED

Bellies are full, but full bellies are not enough. If you're only eating that starch, which is often the case, you're literally starving from lack of nutrients. That's why it's called hidden hunger.

TED

The Invisible Threat Taking Away Our Brightest Minds | Drew McCartor | TED

In 2023, the last year that we have estimates lead took more lives than all active wars all natural disasters, all road accidents and HIV and malaria combined. Just from lead.

Freakonomics Radio

Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin? (Update)

Like tens of millions of people, Stephen Dubner thought he had a penicillin allergy. Like the vast majority, he didn't. This misdiagnosis costs billions of dollars and causes serious health problems, so why hasn't it been fixed?

TED

Your Vaccine Questions Deserve Real Answers | Kizzmekia Corbett | TED

It wasn't that he was just reluctant to get himself vaccines or to get his future children vaccinated. It was that he had questions, concerns, misinformation buried deep down, for which he needed an expert like myself to answer without scorn and without judgment.

The New York Times

Inside an Orphanage at the Center of an Ebola Outbreak

It could have been a recipe of disaster. It's a very classic situation where Ebola can very fastly devastate the community. They are playing together and they are spending the whole day together, so it's spreading from one person to the next. And for zero time you'll see the entire community being infected.

Freakonomics Radio

This Is Your Brain on Pollution (Update)

As the Trump administration rolls back environmental regulations, we revisit a 2022 episode that explored the hidden cost of an invisible threat: air pollution.

The New York Times

How the Ebola Outbreak Is Spreading Mistrust in Congo

People who die from Ebola remain highly infectious. That's why burial teams are trained to handle them in protective gear, to disinfect the body and keep families from touching the dead. But those rules are breaking down.

Radiolab

Your Friendly Neighborhood Hookworms

For most of human history, people were infected with intestinal worms as a matter of course. It's only in the past century, in wealthy countries, that mass deworming campaigns and improved sanitation removed them from virtually the entire population. Now some researchers think that eliminating these ancient passengers may have contributed to a sharp rise in autoimmune and allergic diseases.

Radiolab

Your Friendly Neighborhood Hookworms

For most of human history, people were infected with helminths — parasitic worms — as a matter of course. It's only in the past century or so, in wealthy industrialized nations, that we've largely eliminated them. And it's in those same places that allergies, asthma, and autoimmune diseases have skyrocketed.

Radiolab

Your Friendly Neighborhood Hookworms

For most of human history, hookworms and other parasitic worms were ubiquitous companions to our species. It was only in the twentieth century that sanitation campaigns, shoes, and antiparasitic drugs largely eliminated them from wealthy countries — and it was shortly after that elimination that rates of allergies, autoimmune diseases, and inflammatory bowel conditions began their dramatic rise.

Radiolab

Your Friendly Neighborhood Hookworms

For most of human history, hookworms and other parasitic worms were ubiquitous companions to our species, and our immune systems evolved in their presence. The idea, known as the hygiene hypothesis or 'old friends' hypothesis, is that the absence of these organisms in the modern developed world has left our immune systems without the regulatory signals they evolved to expect — potentially contributing to the rise of allergies, autoimmune diseases, and inflammatory conditions.

Radiolab

Your Friendly Neighborhood Hookworms

For most of human history, intestinal worms were ubiquitous companions. Only in the twentieth century did sanitation campaigns and deworming programs scrub them from the bodies of people in wealthy nations. But some researchers now suspect that in eliminating these parasites, we may have also dismantled part of our immune system's essential operating instructions.

Code Switch

Why so many Americans never learned to swim

In the US, about eight out of 10 children from households with incomes below $50,000 a year have few to no swimming skills. That's according to the American Red Cross. About 64% of black children have few to no swimming skills. For Latino children, it's 45%. For white kids, it's about 40%. And you know, not to get all heavy, but these disparities around swimming line up with drowning deaths in the US, which are most likely to affect poor kids and kids of color.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Alex Karnal - The Trillion-Dollar Health Revolution - [Invest Like the Best, EP.467]

most of the diseases that will claim most of our lives are already addressable with medicines that exist today

Radiolab

Antibiotic Apocalypse

searching for answers to an alarming threat to humanity's existence as we know it: antibiotic resistance in bacteria