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    Fast-Tracking a Lassa Fever Vaccine

    Oyeronke Oyebanji outlines what West African governments can learn from the development and distribution of the COVID-19 jab.
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    Backsliding on Maternal Mortality

    Natalia Kanem urges governments to take immediate, proven steps to ensure that childbirth is a time of life, not death.
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    The Only Way to Eliminate Polio

    Florence Gyembuzie Wongnaah argues that the virus will be eradicated only when the world stops using the oral vaccine.
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    Remembering the Pandemic

    William A. Haseltine explains why future preparedness requires commemorating the millions of lives claimed by COVID-19.
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    Global Health Institutions Need Africa

    Ahmed Ogwell Ouma urges international organizations to make room at the table for the continent’s interests.
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    Women Health Workers Hold the Key to Eradicating Polio

    Atiya Aabroo explains why Pakistan is tapping its female frontline staff to help design policy solutions.
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    A New Weapon Against Malaria

    Cristina Donini & Doreen Akiyo Yomoah tout the promise of monoclonal antibodies in the fight against a disease that still kills millions of people.
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    Innovating Against Injustice in Health Care

    Yvonne Greenstreet calls on biotech companies to embrace strategies that tackle all determinants of access and outcomes.
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    Mitigating Mozambique’s Humanitarian Nightmare

    Jon Hyman & Shannon Kellman urge the United States to focus on replacing health services destroyed by the Islamist insurgency.

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    The Ukraine-Russia Culture War

    Yuriy Gorodnichenko & Ilona Sologoub survey the heated battles that have been playing out far from the physical battlefield.
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    The Poverty of AI Pessimism

    Jim O'Neill questions the increasingly popular sentiment that the technology will be economically destabilizing.
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    The Post-American Middle East

    Mark Leonard explains how the region became a laboratory for a future in which the US is not the sole hegemon.
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    How to Think About Climate-Tech Solutions

    Gernot Wagner offers lessons for navigating a field that is fraught with hype, unintended consequences, and other pitfalls.
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    Can the ECB Escape Its Own Trap?

    Otmar Issing examines the policy dilemma facing central banks as they try to shrink their bloated balance sheets.
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    The Democrats’ Disastrous Debt Deal

    James K. Galbraith decries the party’s willingness to play along with the Republicans’ bad-faith politicking.
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    Building a Biotech Alliance of Democracies

    Jafer Ahmad & Abigail Kukura explains how the US and its allies and partners can maintain leadership in a strategically vital sector.
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    The Transatlantic Carbon-Pricing Clash

    Daniel Gros predicts that the opposing approaches taken by the US and the EU will lead to trade and political frictions.
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    The Geopolitics of Nature

    Simon Zadek highlights the fatal flaw in green “solutions” like the EU’s new deforestation legislation.

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