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When self-deception becomes global hoax

Being deceived isn’t always a case of believing someone else’s lie. Experiments have shown that many of us can be manipulated into accepting our own fictions as true.

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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard

Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.

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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean

Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.

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How can I stop fainting?

Fed up with the faints that bolstered her fragile young snowflake image, Gwen Smith sought expert medical help to keep her upright in trying situations.

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  • Global blood safety initiative : objectives, principles and activities / World Health Organization Global Programme on AIDS.
  • Global blood safety initiative : objectives, principles and activities / World Health Organization Global Programme on AIDS.
  • Global blood safety initiative : objectives, principles and activities / World Health Organization Global Programme on AIDS.
  • Goals of the Global AIDS Strategy for the World Health Organization (WHO). Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A man puts his arm around a woman with a speech bubble above them containing a condom; a safe-sex advertisement by the NGO AIDS Consortium with PATH in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Two hands wrap around each other to form the shape of the AIDS red ribbon against a grainy backdrop of the world within a circle inscribed with the slogan 'Shared rights. Shared responsibility'; an advertisement by the Kenya National AIDS/STD Control Programme, part of the Kenya Ministry of Health. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A man and wife with their two children representing a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the NGO AIDS Consortium with PATH in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A group of young people sitting under a tree being taught the 'Facts about AIDS' by a man sitting in a chair with thatched mud houses beyond; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the NGO AIDS Consortium with PATH in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A graph across a map of the world showing the growing pandemic and stalling response to the AIDS crisis between the years 1981 and 1993; advertisement by The Global AIDS Policy Coalition. Colour lithograph, 1993.
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