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This Nicaraguan Is Showing How To Better Share Pandemic Health Data
Young Nicaraguan activist Natalia Norori is using her skills and experience in open health data to not only measure the true impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable groups, but also aiming at some point to measure the environmental, economical, and social sho…
His Dengue Project Shut, So This Salvadoran Virologist Tackles Covid-19 Instead
Virologist David Martinez has worked his whole career to find a way to a better vaccine for Dengue, a disease rife in his native El Savador, but now he’s using those same skills to help find ways to block the novel coronvirus from infecting people. #gl…
This Scientist Is Searching For A Vaccine To World’s Second-Most Devastating Parasite
Amanda Elyssa Ruiz, a PhD student at Brown University, is looking for potential vaccines to protect against schistosomiasis, a disease that impacts over 250 million people every year, making it the second most socio-economically devastating parasitic d…
What Helped This Asian Country To Keep Covid-19 Deaths At Zero?
Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, has seen more than 50 days without new COVID-19 cases and has yet to report a single death, thanks in part to water initiatives designed to increase resilience to outside shocks. #globalsouthscience
These Colombian Scientists Revealed Alzheimer’s Secrets By Turning Umbilical Cord Tissue Into Brain Cells
A husband and wife team of Colombian scientists have observed Alzheimer’s precursor molecules in cells taken from newborns – a boon for research into the earliest stages of a disease that doesn’t start to show symptoms until people are in their forties…
Africa Is Using Lessons From AIDS Pandemic To Fight Coronavirus. Will The U.S.?
African health experts say hard lessons learned during the AIDS pandemic is helping them to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, even as they predict life-saving tests and medicines will arrive in African countries long after they will be available in Europ…
This Nigerian Company Is Using Light From The Sun To Fight Coronavirus Spread
In rural areas all of over the world, two things can be really scarce: reliable electricity and adequate healthcare. To help solve this, solar companies in Nigeria are pitching in to provide electricity to the front-line healthcare facilities fighting …
This Costa Rican And His Robots Could Close California’s Coronavirus Testing Gap
In a robot-filled lab in California, a team including a scientist from Costa-Rica are working out how to use automation to do Coronavirus testing on a massive scale – a technology US states will need if they are going to ‘reopen’ safely. #globalsouthsc…
This Doctor From Kashmir Uses Machine Learning To Crunch Coronavirus Data
A young surgeon raised in Kashmir is now part of a team using big data and machine learning to help detect useful patterns in the tsunami of public health data generated world-wide by the COVID-19 crisis and do what he can for those back home. #globals…
In Colombia, Silence Is The Price Paid For Coping With Coronavirus
Andrew Wight reports from Medellin, Colombia on the effects of the national quarantine and how Colombians are coping with COVID-19.
