Tag: see-disabled
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From curse to catfish: West Africa schools tackle stigma of disability
By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Working quietly in a classroom at a primary school in Dakar, nine-year-old blind boy Abdoulaye sits next to the star pupils, who watch and help him, and alert the teacher if he struggles. “At first there were worries and fears, it was an innovation to have all…
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Toil and trouble in China over Nobel medicine prize
China's Tu Youyou collects her country's first Nobel Prize for medicine next week for extracting an anti-malarial drug from a herb mentioned in a traditional text, but her award has prompted debate over the role of science in the practice. Tu derived artemisinin from sweet wormwood, which she found cited in a 4th century traditional…