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Small Changes is a podcast series of one-on-one interviews with people who've seen a problem in the world and set out to change it – often in small and unexpected ways
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Innermost: another episode of our new series
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We wanted to bring you another episode from our Innermost series. In the last episode of our first season, two callers tell Leah Green how their relationships sent them down unexpected paths, one with criminal consequences Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to hear the rest of the seriesBy The Guardian
The Guardian has launched a new series called Innermost that we think you will like. Each week, callers will tell Leah Green what’s going on behind closed doors. In the first episode, we hear how an uncle’s funeral and meals with an emotionally distant brother help James and Jess think about their families in new and unexpected ways. Subscribe wher…
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MYD88 Wild-Type Waldenström Macroglobulinemia
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'The blood lady': the medical start-up founder saving lives in Nigeria
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When Temie Giwa-Tubosun realised Nigerians lacked safe access to vital health care products like blood she decided to do something about it. That decision changed her life and saved those of many othersBy The Guardian
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'What happened to me will not happen to my daughters': sexual violence in war
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Kosovan-born Vasfije Krasniqi-Goodman explains how a survivors’ network has empowered her and others to speak out against rape as a weapon of conflictBy The Guardian
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Defying the Taliban: Afghanistan's secret schools for girls
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Suraya Pakzad talks to Lucy Lamble about her work championing girls’ education – and living on red alert for the next Taliban raidBy The Guardian
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'I live in the 21st century, not the 10th': the first female judge in a sharia court
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The Judge, a new film by award-winning director Erika Cohn, tells the incredible story of how Kholoud Al-Faqih achieved her improbable dream of representing women in the Middle East’s all-male religious courtsBy The Guardian
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ASH 2018 guidelines for management of VTE: heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
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ASH 2018 guidelines for management of VTE: venous thromboembolism in the context of pregnancy
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'Suddenly you have to run for your life': a film-maker's take on life in Sudan
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Award-winning director Hajooj Kuka on the realities of life in a wartorn country, and the inspiration for aKasha, his first feature filmBy The Guardian
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‘My father's murderers are still free’: taking on Mexico's violent underworld
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Investigative journalist Anabel Hernández has risked her life to expose corruption at the heart of her country’s violent ‘drug wars’. She tells Lucy Lamble why staying silent is not an optionBy The Guardian
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'Disability is not the end of the world': reinventing yourself after becoming blind
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Activist Christophe Oulé had a glittering career in engineering in Burkina Faso when he lost his sight. Now he campaigns tirelessly to improve the lives of other blind people. He talks to Lucy LambleBy The Guardian
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'It's a long fight': the communities devastated by Brazil's dam collapse
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Three years after the country’s worst environmental disaster, in which 19 people died, Lucy Lamble hears how Letícia Oliveira is still campaigning for justice for the people affectedBy The Guardian
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Capital offence: tackling harassment on public transport in Bogotá
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In Colombia’s capital, many women are reliant on buses. Ángela Anzola and the city’s mayor want transport designed by men to be safer for womenBy The Guardian
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'Inequality is a poison': campaigning for Muslim women's rights
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Shahin Ashraf’s experience growing up as a British Muslim has led to a life campaigning for gender equality around the worldBy The Guardian
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Fighting for LGBT rights in a country where lesbians are caned
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Criminalised by the state and targeted by vigilantes, Malaysia’s LGBT community faces rampant persecution. Thi Laga, a co-founder of rights group Justice for Sisters, has become a leading figure in the fightbackBy The Guardian
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Fighting the advance of the desert: the forest maker of the Sahel
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The Australian agronomist Tony Rinaudo reveals the secrets that brought about extraordinary results in dozens of countries, from Senegal to EthiopiaBy The Guardian
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The Mosul historian who risked his life to blog about life under Isis
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When his beloved city was occupied by Islamic State, Iraqi Omar Mohammed was determined to document every atrocity – as anonymous blogger Mosul EyeBy The Guardian
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'I'm a living manifestation of possibility': South Africa's emissary on disability
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Eddie Ndopu defied expectations as the first African with a disability to graduate from Oxford. Now he wants to be the first wheelchair user in spaceBy The Guardian
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'It came at a great cost but it was worth it': Bangladesh protests
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Our guest this week is a teenager who was involved in mass demonstrations in Dhaka that were sparked after two children were killed by a busBy The Guardian
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'Dance has done so much for me': the leader of Kenya's slum ballet school
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Mike Wamaya discusses how performing ballet helps children transcend the chaos and violence of life in KiberaBy The Guardian
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'Girls who leave militias get rejected': helping child soldiers go home
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Lucy Lamble talks to Sandra Olsson from Child Soldiers International, who works with girls formerly caught up in armed groups in Democratic Republic of the Congo as they struggle to settle back in their communitiesBy The Guardian
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The football-loving lawyer moving the goalposts for girls’ rights in Kenya
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After studying human rights law, Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan returned to her hometown to promote peace and champion women’s rights – through ball skills and teamworkBy The Guardian
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Muscle-derived FIX Padua expression in HB dogs
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'I was always a rebel who stood up for my rights': rise of a Tunisian activist
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When protests in Tunisia sparked revolution across the region and in the Middle East, Aya Chebbi found her political voiceBy The Guardian
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How opera found an open ear in South Africa's townships
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Critic Shirley Apthorp was inspired by Venezuela’s use of music to empower communities but realised the post-apartheid generation needed a change of key to unlock an artform so associated with a white eliteBy The Guardian
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Resistance 101: the video game going to war on malaria
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To fight this disease you need creativity, says Marlize Coleman, whose innovation teaches health workers the best way to zap mosquitoesBy The Guardian
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The cashless taxi system that's reducing Rwanda's traffic accidents
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Entrepreneur Karanvir Singh has come up with a cashless system for motorbike taxis to help passengers get a fair deal – and improve road safetyBy The Guardian
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The Palestinian engineer using ashes and rubble to rebuild Gaza
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Young social entrepreneur Majd Mashharawi talks about how she transforms the debris left by conflict into eco-friendly housing materials, helping people reconstruct their livesBy The Guardian
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'Half of Indian children are sexually abused': a survivor speaks out
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Award-winning social activist, TEDx speaker and filmmaker Insia Dariwala talks about her hopes for a world where boys and girls can be safe and freeBy The Guardian
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The doctor from Myanmar faced with 1 million patients and a plague of rats
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When disaster struck his community in remote Chin state, Dr SaSa rushed to help – and found himself trying to treat 400 people a dayBy The Guardian
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Plasma FXIII mediates venous thrombus size
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The human IL-15 superagonist ALT-803 directs SIV-specific CD8+ T cells into B-cell follicles
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Executed, disappeared, tortured: the risks of defending human rights
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In the climate of fear following the murder of activist Berta Cáceres in Honduras, Lucy Lamble talks to Ana Paula Hernández about her work supporting campaigners who fight to protect native landsBy The Guardian
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'Every girl is forced by our culture into FGM': battling for change in Kenya
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From rescuing girls from female genital mutilation to championing women’s political rights, Leah Chebet Psiya is breaking down barriers in her Pokot community in eastern KenyaBy The Guardian
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'Children were dying of hunger': the doctor fighting for Ecuador's poor – podcast
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Medic turned health activist Dr Erika Arteaga-Cruz has vowed to remedy the country’s poor record on treatment for communities in dire needBy The Guardian
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Misdiagnosis of primary immune thrombocytopenia
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Could this man end the 35-year tyranny of Cameroon's President Biya?
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Despite never having held political office, lawyer Akere Muna is on a mission to fight corruption by standing for election as Cameroon’s leaderBy The Guardian
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'It's everywhere – in factories, in the bedroom': fighting India's gender violence
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Against the backdrop of #MeToo and the country’s infamous rape cases, Lucy Lamble talks to activist Seema Nair about her work empowering Indian womenBy The Guardian
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Sun, sand and thousands of refugees: the Lesbos volunteer
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Shocked by the humanitarian crisis she saw unfolding in Greece, Ayesha Keller got on a plane to see if she could help save livesBy The Guardian
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From cattle herder to big pharma expert: one man's fight to end malaria
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Dr Allan Pamba on the ‘silent epidemic’ that drove him to leave his Kenyan village, train as a clinician and become a leading authority on global healthBy The Guardian
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The woman who braves bullets and bombs to uphold her father's legacy in Somalia
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Elman Ali Ahmed dedicated his life to disarming child soldiers and trying to end conflict in Somalia – now his daughter, Ilwad, is following in his footstepsBy The Guardian
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Human experience will always speak louder than any campaign
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Lucy Lamble talks to an Amnesty International expert about the importance of letting people in tough situations tell their own storiesBy The Guardian
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Block like an Egyptian: roller derby team get women's rights on track
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Lucy Lamble talks to Angie Kaster, co-founder of Egypt’s first roller derby team – the all-female CaiRollers – about how this brutal contact sport is empowering local womenBy The Guardian
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'Oxfam allegations are tip of iceberg': sexual harassment and aid workers
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Lucy Lamble talks to Rebecca Ratcliffe about her investigations into exploitation and the misuse of power in humanitarian organisationsBy The Guardian
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'Everything was clouded by Trump in 2017': a challenging year for poor nations
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Lucy Lamble looks back over 12 months of critical changes for developing countries, dominated by the devastating effects of the ‘global gag rule’By The Guardian
