• Global efforts to combat tuberculosis have saved over 75 million lives since 2000. WHO.
• Since 2017, 226 million people in Africa have been protected from yellow fever via a single-dose vaccine that provides lifelong protection. WHO.
• Global inequality has declined. Cato.
• Pregnant women across the Democratic Republic of the Congo will be offered free healthcare. Guardian.
• The number of kids in foster care in America is lower than it’s been in decades. Statista.
• China’s emissions set to fall in 2024 after record growth in clean energy. Carbon Brief.
• Despite news that electric vehicle sales in the US are slowing, sales in the third quarter of 2023 exhibited the strongest year-on-year growth since the fourth quarter of 2021. Heatmap.
• Deforestation in Colombia down 70 percent so far this year. Yale Environment 360.
• Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon down 22% in a year. Phys.org.
• 6,000 acres of land have been re-greened in West Bengal, India. Reasons to be Cheerful.
• AI could predict heart attack risk up to 10 years in the future, finds Oxford study. The Guardian.
• Base editing, a new form of gene therapy, sharply lowers bad cholesterol in clinical trial. Science.
• How child mortality has declined in the last two centuries. Our World in Data.

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