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		<title>Aid cuts did not cause ebola</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Spectator (3rd June, 2025)]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The WHO has failed us again</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (1st April, 2020) Like many doctors, Bruce Aylward has been working tirelessly since this coronavirus started its rampage around the planet, although his job takes [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>My hero of 2014 sacrificed herself to save countless others</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2014 10:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Independent (29th December, 2014) News is by nature a grim business, the most terrible and tragic tales dominating headlines and squeezing out the humdrum humanity [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Should Band Aid be resurrected?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Observer (16th November, 2014) The Observer debate with Tim Ingham (Editor, Music Week) IB: Absolutely not. The only good thing is to learn the toe-curling [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The aid industry endorses human rights abuses, fuels corruption and missed the Ebola crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2014 22:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Independent (3rd November, 2014) First came a report revealing terrible human rights abuses from a repressive regime backed by huge sums of British aid. A [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Our shameful response to the ebola crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 22:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Independent (20th October, 2014) I relaxed again this weekend. It was 21 days since I returned from Liberia to report on the human tragedy of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A lethal epidemic and a lethargic global response</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2014 13:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Independent (4th October, 2014) Augustin was agitated and scared. After weeks spent hiding in his house with his wife and children, he had left the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bonfire of the ebola victims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2014 16:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th September, 2014) As I walked into the walled Hindu-style cremation site outside Monrovia alongside the latest consignment of bodies, I saw [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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