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Growing up in a rural community in South Africa with high rates of HIV and TB, Dr. Nonhlanhla Yende-Zuma could have been just another statis...
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Bill Gates profiles Dora Shimbwambwa, who’s working on practical, affordable ways to fight pests and help Zambian farmers thrive in a changi...
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Guinea worm once infected 3.5 million people every year. Thanks to heroes like Makoy, that number dropped to 13 last year.
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Meet incredible heroes who work to make the world better every day.
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Dr. Mara Lawniczak is a leading evolutionary geneticist who is helping the fight against malaria by studying the genomes of mosquitoes.
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I’m a big fan of beans, but my love for them can’t touch Clare Mukankusi’s. She has devoted her whole career to creating more reasons to eat...
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In Uganda, the maternal mortality rate is double the global average—at least. Eva Nangalo, a midwife from the country’s Nakaseke District, h...
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After Wendo Aszed lost her best friend to HIV/AIDS, she dedicated her life to saving lives in her native Kenya. Today she runs Dandelion Afr...
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In addition to her innovative field research, Dr. Damaris Matoke-Muhia is working to open the doors to women in community-level initiatives ...
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Sofonias Tessema is the program lead for the Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative at the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. S...
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For most people, the highly effective mRNA COVID-19 vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech seemed to come out of the blue. But these n...
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Sudha Varghese runs a school in Bihar, India to educate and uplift girls who were viewed as the “untouchables” in India’s earlier caste syst...
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By challenging local tradition in Kenya, Kakenya Ntaiya changed her own life and transformed the direction of her Maasai community. The foun...
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As COVID-19 swept across South Africa, one of the most pressing needs was access to public health information. But UNICEF, in partnership wi...
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Since the start of the global eradication effort in 1988, the number of polio cases worldwide has fallen 99.9 percent. Much of the credit fo...
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As Sierra Leone’s first chief innovation officer and its youngest ever education minister, David Sengeh has been deeply involved in his coun...
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The expression, “I need to take a crap,” originated, at least according to some accounts, with Thomas Crapper, an English plumber and busine...
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If there’s ever been a time that we need heroes, it’s now. The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented health and economic challenges, e...
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Ruth Bishop, an Australian virologist, discovered rotavirus, a disease that was killing half a million children a year. Her research saved m...
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Alain Nteff is the founder of GiftedMom, a cell phone app that gives pregnant women and new mothers instant access to medical advice to keep...
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This wife-and-husband team revolutionized the fight against HIV/AIDS. Now they’re helping the world tackle COVID-19 too.
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Growing up in poverty in Sierra Leone, Mohamed Bailor Barrie dreamed of becoming a doctor but never thought it was possible. Today he’s one ...
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Dr. Stephaun Wallace, a Seattle-based epidemiologist, is fighting to make vaccines work for communities of color. His efforts with the COVID...
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Bill Gates recently met up with Dr. Bill Foege, where they talked about smallpox, his role as a mentor, and the stunning progress being made...
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For the last 25 years, Dr. Firdausi Qadri, an immunologist and infectious disease researcher in Bangladesh, has been one of the few people a...
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As COVID-19 spreads across Africa, hospitals across the continent face shortages of basic medical supplies needed to treat the respiratory d...
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A physician and award-winning novelist, Dr. Kopano Matlwa Mabaso leads the Grow Great campaign to fight malnutrition and stunting in South A...
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Dr. Samir Saha and his daughter Dr. Senjuti Saha are a dynamic duo of global health. Using data and innovation, the Saha family is working t...
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Heroes in the Field: Dr. Peter Piot
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Heroes in the field: Pashu Sakhis
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Heroes in the field: Nandan Nilekani
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Heroes in the Field: Dr. Andreas Diacon
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Heroes in the Field: Mechai Viravaidya
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Bill Gates’s Heroes in the Field: Mandy Manning
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Going the last mile
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Heroes in the Field Dr Mukwege
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Strength in numbers
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A humanist approach to teaching kids
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Afghanistan and Pakistan are two of the remaining three countries where polio hasn’t yet been eliminated. Courageous polio vaccinators trave...
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As a young girl growing up in a poor farming village in rural Ethiopia, Segenet Kelemu once witnessed a swarm of locusts wipe out the crops ...
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The Fight Against AIDS is Filled with Heroes
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