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pulitzercenter: Tuberculosis, or TB, is the world’s second-deadliest infectious disease and kills 1.4 million people every year, according to the World Health Organization. While its bacteria are easily transmitted through the air, the disease can be readily treated and cured. Yet much of the world lacks sufficient treatment. That’s the case in Vietnam. The country…
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pulitzercenter: On the maternity ward in Chokwe, Mozambique’s hospital, everyone calls Nilza Munambo “Doctora Nilza.” She treats patients, delivers babies, performs cesarean sections and even hysterectomies. But she’s not an MD—she’s a surgical technician, a health worker who has less training than a doctor, but carries out a range of life saving operations in rural…
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pulitzercenter: The Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists last week published a major investigation into lucrative tax shelters that Luxembourg provides to some of America’s largest corporations. Tax experts and lawyers helped a team of ICIJ journalists unravel a variety of complicated accounting shell games that allowed corporations dodge billions in taxes. To help explain…
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