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Month: September 2022

Opinion: The world is moving backward in the combat against poverty and disease. Here’s what we need to do

Opinion by Mark Suzman for CNN Business Perspectives The first two decades of the 21st century provided more progress for more people than perhaps any other period in human history. Deaths from malaria, HIV and tuberculosis were cut in half. Child deaths fell dramatically. Polio was nearly eradicated. And the global poverty rate fell by

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Drug overdose death rates highest among American Indian people and middle-age Black men, study shows

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Drug overdose deaths in the United States increased sharply throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, reaching record levels in 2021. But the burden on different racial and ethnic groups has changed, according to a study by federal researchers published Tuesday in JAMA Network Open. For people ages 15 to 34, White people had

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