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Heat Wave Picking Off Pakistan’s Urban Poor

By Zofeen Ebrahim
Over 950 people have perished in just five days. The morgues, already filled to capacity, are piling up with bodies, and in over-crowded hospitals the threat of further deaths hangs in the air.

When Kenyan Children’s Lives Hang on a Drip

By Miriam Gathigah
Acute watery diarrhoea is a major killer of young children but misunderstanding over the benefits of fluid treatment is preventing many Kenyan parents from resorting to this life-saving technique and threatening to reverse the strides that the country has made in child health.


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