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Uganda: closing the net on malaria

Malaria is a preventable disease, yet it kills at least one million people every year. Agnes Suubi from the Malaria Consortium describes her experiences battling the disease in Uganda

Article photo'Having HIV doesn't make you abnormal'

World Aids Day: Rafael, 17, describes what it is like to be among Brazil's first generation of people who have always lived with HIV

Article photoMental Health: a survival story

Health: Andrew Smith, 28, is living with schizo-affected disorder. It was eventually diagnosed in his early twenties, after years of depression, hallucinations and an overdose

Heroin: a tale of addiction

Health: Heroin addict Glen, 55, is trialling a new treatment in Brighton, where he is given pharmaceutical heroin, diamorphine, to inject. It has changed his life

'We lost our son to rabies'

Health: September 28 2009 was World Rabies Day. Here, Connie Jones describes what happened when she lost her 16-year-old son Zach to rabies

'I went to Turkey to have my thyroid removed'

Health: Travelling abroad for surgical procedures is becoming an increasingly common practice. Leyla Ozmenekse describes how she travelled to Turkey to have her thyroid removed

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