Overcrowding is one reason slums are known incubators of disease. Informal settlements are typically 10 times denser than neighboring areas of the same city. The Dharavi slum in central Mumbai, for ...
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How one Kenyan man's mission is creating opportunity in Nairobi slums
Young people studying in the library in the Kibera slum, the largest slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The community ...
A new study suggests that the 'neighbourhood effect' of slums could help to alleviate some of their associated health problems. A team of academics led by Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick ...
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What life is really like inside this Venezuelan border slum
This video offers a close look inside a Venezuelan slum located near the Brazil border, where residents face extremely harsh living conditions. It explores daily life, limited access to resources, and ...
Sprawling urban areas in Brazil, Nigeria and Bangladesh are all seeing COVID-19 infections rise rapidly. Yet, our research finds, many residents of slums and squatter settlements are not getting the ...
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