The game “Schisto & Ladders” is introduced to students at a primary school in a part of Nigeria where schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease, transmitted by parasitic worms, affects many residents. This version of the classic game “Chutes & Ladders” aims to teach children how to avoid getting infected and details of treatment for those
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As heat waves sweep the country, NPR’s A Martinez asks W. Larry Kenney, professor of physiology and kinesiology at Penn State University, how extreme heat affects humans. TO MARTINEZ, HOST: A dangerous heat wave is hitting parts of the central and eastern United States and is expected to last through the Fourth of July weekend.
Health care workers demonstrate at a Manhattan union headquarters to show support for the Haitian and Syrian communities after the US Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could end temporary protected status for potentially millions of foreign nationals from countries experiencing conflict and violence. The decision means that more than 330,000 Haitians and Syrians
For more than 50 years, the Department of Education has revealed a number of realities about how students are treated in every public school in America: which children are being bullied, which children are being harassed, and which students are allowed to access the Internet, among other things. The agency’s civil rights data collection aims
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