Reposted by BobBK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 03/01/2025What a cool study and a powerful demonstration that Tuberculosis is largely a disease of poverty. In Brazil a large scale intervention which provided cash monthly to families living in poverty led to profound reductions in TB cases. Up to 50% among the poorest groups. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comEffects of conditional cash transfers on tuberculosis incidence and mortality according to race, ethnicity and socioeconomic factors in the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort - Nature MedicineParticipation in Brazil’s Bolsa Familia Program, one of the largest conditional cash transfer programs in the world, was associated with large reductions in tuberculosis incidence and mortality among ... 613456806
Bob @3ob.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Death, disfigurement, dehumanisation are still happening to slaves today. Nothing changed. 100
Bob @3ob.bsky.social · 03/01/2025 The legal definition of slavery is the status of a person over whom some or all of the powers of ownership are exercised. The Slavery Convention, adopted in 1926, also defines the slave trade as the act of capturing, acquiring, or disposing of a person with the intent to reduce them to slavery. 100
Bob @3ob.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Yes here. Every country in the world has slaves. There's more people living in slavery today than in any time in history. Dig into the crime statistics for your state and you will find numbers for slavery it is estimated that more than 400,000 people exist in conditions of slavery today in the USA 110
Bob @3ob.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Because it didn't end 150 years ago. It is still alive and well in every country in the world 200
Reposted by Bobtrouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 31/12/2024When someone offers you a chamomile tea. 2753340
Bob @3ob.bsky.social · 28/12/2024I allowed the sirens to draw me in so I have one (GX680 II) now. I find a garden trolley quite handy getting around with the gear you need 000
Reposted by BobSalome Bones' locker @salomekjones.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Fix your heart. We are here to learn not to hate. Think about how much better the world would be right now, how we could not be corrupted by propaganda that sets us against each other, if we made ourselves immune to hating those more vulnerable than we are. 1346
Reposted by BobShira Agha Irshad🇦🇫شیرآغا ارشاد @shiraaghaershad.bsky.social · 23/12/2024🇦🇫A brave girl from Afghanistan spray paints #LetHerLearn on a wall to spread a powerful message of resistance against the Taliban's oppressive ban on girls' education. 55420
Bob @3ob.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Do you know that Jan 1st is a Wed. So 2025 starts Wed Thu Fri W T F Says it all I think 030
Reposted by BobCommon Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming. 1109344159771
Bob @3ob.bsky.social · 15/12/2024What there needs is some sort of makerish solution to home manufacturing film, something revolutionary like 3d printing 140
Reposted by BobBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/12/2024The average lifespan was 35 and 50% of people died before they were 2. Is what they did. 329120783185
Bob @3ob.bsky.social · 12/12/2024I was thinking more along the lines of 10,000 variations from a single prompt 000
