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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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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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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas

Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.

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Winter blues and the story of SAD

In ‘Chasing the Sun‘ Linda Geddes reveals why for some people, winter is literally depressing, showing how we first came to recognise seasonal affective disorder (SAD).

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  • Four pairs of hands clasping (some black, some white); representing successful management of AIDS in South Africa through equitable behaviour. Lithograph, ca. 1996 (?).
  • A syringe forming the 'i' of the word 'AIDS'; a warning about the dangers of spreading AIDS through sharing needles and syringes. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's (?).
  • Ke loketšwe ke eng? /Kgoroya ya maphelo Republike ya Afrika Borwa.
  • Ke loketšwe ke eng? /Kgoroya ya maphelo Republike ya Afrika Borwa.
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  • Ke loketšwe ke eng? /Kgoroya ya maphelo Republike ya Afrika Borwa.
  • Ke loketšwe ke eng? /Kgoroya ya maphelo Republike ya Afrika Borwa.
  • Ke loketšwe ke eng? /Kgoroya ya maphelo Republike ya Afrika Borwa.
  • Ke loketšwe ke eng? /Kgoroya ya maphelo Republike ya Afrika Borwa.
  • Ke loketšwe ke eng? /Kgoroya ya maphelo Republike ya Afrika Borwa.
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