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• Latin America’s rise in tuberculosis linked to imprisonment rates

  25-12-2024 13:00
  
  Study warns region’s exponential rise in incarceration is fuelling the disease, with cases increasing by 19% between 2015 and 2022 High incarceration rates in Latin America – the region with the world’s fastest-growing prison population – are exacerbating tuberculosis in a region that is bucking the global trend for falling incidents of the disease, experts have warned.A study published in The Lancet Public Health journal has estimated that, contrary to previous assumptio
  
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• ‘They call me LinkedIn’: the Brazilian musical sensation named after Gary Lineker

  25-12-2024 08:00
  Award-winning São Paulo songwriter who grew up in football - and music-loving family has shot to stardom since 2015 debut The house lights were dimmed in one of Rio’s top music venues and, as the star of the show prepared to take the stage, thousands of enraptured fans cried out their idol’s name in the darkness: “Liniker! Liniker! Liniker! Liniker!”It was not, however, the England striker turned Match of the Day host Gary Lineker the sellout crowd was here to see.
  
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