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- 1Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill to Repeal Helms Amendment▼Schakowsky, Booker, Colleagues Reintroduce Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act to Repeal Harmful Helms Amendment
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Senator Cory Booker and fellow Democrats have reintroduced the Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act, legislation that would repeal the Helms Amendment. The decades-old measure blocks US foreign aid from funding abortion services overseas. Supporters argue the restriction denies safe care to women in low-income countries, while opponents back the long-standing funding ban.
- 2How China and Canada beat the U.S. in educating poor kids●Q&A: How China and Canada beat the U.S. in educating poor kids
A new Q&A examines how China and Canada outperform the United States in educating children from low-income families. The discussion, reported by NJ Spotlight News, explores what factors explain the gap and what lessons the U.S. school system might draw from those countries' approaches to supporting disadvantaged students.
- 3Researchers say rapid low-cost TB diagnosis now within reach●Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine | Rapid low-cost diagnosis within reach for TB ‘missed millions’, researchers find
Researchers at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine report that a rapid, low-cost diagnostic test could reach the millions of tuberculosis cases that currently go undiagnosed. The findings suggest simpler, cheaper testing could help close the gap in detecting TB, which is still one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases, particularly in low-income countries where diagnosis is often delayed or unavailable.