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2020: The year of the nurse and midwife

January 6, 2020Health & Medicine

The World Health Organization designation signifies a concerted push to boost the global nursing workforce in the face of growing health care shortages and ambitious efforts to reach a UN goal of universal health coverage around the world by 2030.

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A family tries to immigrate to the US, but first, they must live separate lives

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