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Top 10 global health achievements in the past decade

No. 3 on the CDC’s list of the top 10 global health achievements in the past decade is access to safe water and sanitation.
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No. 3 on the CDC’s list of the top 10 global health achievements in the past decade is access to safe water and sanitation.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has compiled a list of the top 10 achievements in global health over the past 10 years.

The report notes, however, that “major disparities persist” and much remains to be done even in these areas that have shown most improvement.

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The host of the Humanosphere community is Tom Paulson, who spent 22 years reporting on science and medicine at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Tom was one of the first daily news reporters to cover the topic of “global health” (a much-debated label which he discusses the merits of on the Humanosphere website).