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Dwight Harris spent 25 years behind bars for assault with intent to murder. And now being back home in Detroit for almost a decade, Harris is sure there was more behind this harsh sentence.
Dwight Harris spent 25 years behind bars for assault with intent to murder. And now being back home in Detroit for almost a decade, Harris is sure there was more behind this harsh sentence.
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image captionProgress to improve has been slow since the authority s children s services were rated inadequate in 2018
A former children s commissioner has urged voters to quiz candidates in Bradford s local elections on 6 May on their plans for helping children and young people.
The city s children s services department has been dogged by staffing issues and criticism from watchdog Ofsted, while projects aimed at vulnerable youth have struggled for funding.
Earlier this month it was revealed the Labour-run council s bill for agency staff to work in children s social work had quadrupled in three years - currently running at £17m a year.
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Health is Wealth
Health is wealth, yet so many people are unable to benefit from it. Throughout the years, various research studies have examined the effect that healthy citizens have on a nation’s economic well-being. Recently, anew report by the Economist Intelligence Unit revealed that $3.2 billion in productivity could be gained between 2021 – 2040 by eliminating two neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), soil-transmitted helminths or intestinal worms and schistosomiasis (bilharzia) in Ethiopia – where at least 75 million people require treatment for at least one NTD.
NTDs are a group of parasitic, bacteria, and viral diseases that affect more than 1.7 billion people, particularly, the most vulnerable and marginalized people in society. Mass drug administration campaigns are conducted in disease endemic countries in order to reduce morbidity, which in turn contributes to an i