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Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK

Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.

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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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What Black women do when the NHS fails them

Sabrina-Maria Anderson explores misogynoir – hatred of Black women – within the NHS, and how women like her are consequently turning to other sources of medical support.

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  • A toilet, washing hands, drinking treated water and cooking and storing food safely: how to prevent cholera in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.
  • Australian public health information poster on the tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria), advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish, produced by Brisbane City Council Department of Health after the 1926/1927 dengue epidemic. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • Dr Sopo's advice on treating children with diarrhoea: use and preparation of oral rehydration salts in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.
  • [Report] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, London County Council.
  • [Report] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, London County Council.
  • [Report] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, London County Council.
  • [Report] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, London County Council.
  • [Report] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, London County Council.
  • [Report] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, London County Council.
  • [Report] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, London County Council.
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