Daniela Raz, a data journalist at The Economist, tackles the dual crises of Ukraine's ongoing conflict and public health challenges related to cervical cancer. She reveals how cheap HPV vaccinations could prevent millions of deaths but highlights alarming declines in jab rates. Raz also discusses the complex humanitarian consequences of the war and the economic strife in Nigeria, where airlines are struggling with currency issues. The conversation intertwines health, conflict, and the harsh realities of travel in an economically strained landscape.
Hints of the long campaign ahead are emerging, but all the operations so far are just drawing the eventual, full-scale battle lines. Cheap vaccinations could save millions of lives lost to cervical cancer; we ask why and where jab rates are falling. And why airlines have more money tied up in Nigeria than in the rest of the world combined.
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