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Feds High-quality Baker School $2.5 Million for Misleading Advertising and marketing That Left College students With Money owed and Regrets

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. The U.S. Department of Education has fined a Michigan college $2.5 million for years of “substantial misrepresentation” of career outcomes. The department said in
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What Gibbs-White mentioned to Awoniyi after ending aim drought for Forest in 27 EPL matches

Taiwo Awoniyi’s Nottingham Forest teammate, Morgan Gibbs-White, shared an uplifting message after the Nigerian forward ended his prolonged Premier League goal drought, Soccernet.ng reports. The Tricky Trees moved level on 40 points with Arsenal, who are second in the EPL standings, following an impressive 3-0 victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers on Monday. Awoniyi, who came on

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Tendai Westerhof, HIV Advocate

As director of a national network of women living with HIV in Zimbabwe, Tendai Westerhof was used to challenging stigma. When the COVID-19 vaccine became available, she became alarmed by the fear and disinformation she saw spreading on social media.“Each time you open a WhatsApp group, people are saying this about COVID. You go on
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Reginald Omulo, Bean Farmer

Reginald Omulo, a farmer in Migori County, Kenya, noticed that the tobacco farming his community practiced was affecting families’ health and well-being.“There are many diseases associated with tobacco farming that affect the environment and people,” he said. “There were sudden deaths.”Worse yet, he saw that children who lost parents to the dangers of tobacco farming
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Malawi launches third spherical of mass vaccination drive to cease wild poliovirus

Lilongwe, 11 August 2022 – Malawi today kicked off the third round of vaccination against wild poliovirus type 1 to protect all under 5 children and halt the devastating virus from spreading. Around 3.4 Million vaccine doses will be administered in the third round of the national mass vaccination campaign. The multiple vaccination rounds aim to
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Lamine Thiare, Soccer Coach, Senegal

A well-known goalkeeper and football coach both in his native Senegal and across West Africa, Lamine Thiare uses his considerable influence to transmit a simple message to young people: “Do not smoke!” he warns them emphatically.Growing up, Lamine saw how smoking damaged his own father’s health. “He had no appetite, his body was weak. But
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Macron Chauluka, Polio Vaccinator

Macron Chauluka is a community health worker on the front lines of Malawi’s ongoing fight against the wild poliovirus.After an outbreak of the virus, which can paralyze and even cause death, was declared in the country in February 2022, a total of around 2.9 million children, who are most at risk, were identified nationwide for
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Marthe Apuwa Mbila, Ebola Survivor

Marthe Apuwa Mbila is a single mother of two children living in Lusengo, a remote area of the Democratic Republic of Congo.Marthe was diagnosed with Ebola during the country’s 11th outbreak of the disease in 2020. She received treatment at a local hospital and made a full recovery. Once she was well again, Marthe was eager to
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Schooling and household assist important to stepping unique breastfeeding 

Abuja, 11 Abuja, 2022 - In February 2022, Mariam Udeh, 26 years old, residing in Garki, Abuja, gave birth to her first child and was in uncharted territory. As a new mother, she agreed with her husband to exclusively breastfeed their baby for six months.  “He is our firstborn, and I have heard that exclusive
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Vaccinating newborns in opposition to hepatitis B

Marlène Seck has brought her infant daughter to the Philippe Maguilene Senghor Health Centre in Yoff, Senegal, to be vaccinated against hepatitis B. The baby cries as she receives her jab, but the tears are worth it: having received her first dose at birth, this is her third dose of the life-saving vaccine. “We mothers
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90% of individuals residing with HIV entry therapy

Adetimi Bayo lives with HIV in a heart of poverty in remote Nigeria. Being remote and being poor can mean out of reach of help and hope. When Nigeria decided to change its AIDS story, it changed the life story of thousands of people like Bayo.  Back in 2018, the country which has the third
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Overcoming blood shortages

“Blood cannot be manufactured. It is only through donations that it reaches those in need,” says Dominique Linguedze, a voluntary blood donor in Brazzaville, the riverside capital of the Republic of the Congo. “To give my blood is to give a little of myself. It makes me feel like a heroine.” “To give my blood
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In Mozambique, family screening retains households malaria-free

Matuba, Mozambique – Stefina Mocuvele looks on as her grandson Nolege plays happily with his siblings. It’s a far cry from his condition three years ago, when a bout of malaria landed the then six-year-old in hospital, 10 kilometers away from their home in Matuba locality in the Chókwè district of Gaza province, Mozambique. “He
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Edo State intensifies coordinated response to include unfold of monkeypox illness

Benin, 9 August, 2022 - After four days of complaining of fever, headache, fatigue and cough, 40 years old Mr V Ehosa (not real name), a land seller residing in Benin, Edo State, tested positive for monkeypox.  Mr Ehosa got admitted to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Edo State, four days after he
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