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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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Two health centres, two ideologies

Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.

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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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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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  • Can you tell if someone is HIV positive? : The answer is no : HIV testing should be part of your sexual health check : quick and confidential : HIV tests at the RHIVA clinic - results in 20 minutes / RHIVA clinic, Lewisham Primary Care Trust, NHS.
  • Can you tell if someone is HIV positive? : The answer is no : HIV testing should be part of your sexual health check : quick and confidential : HIV tests at the RHIVA clinic - results in 20 minutes / RHIVA clinic, Lewisham Primary Care Trust, NHS.
  • Guide for reporting suspected cases of measles in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.
  • A drug-user with his wife and children explaining how his love for his family motivates him to use a condom; a safe-sex advertisement to prevent AIDS by the NACO in collaboration with WHO. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
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