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Heat – The New Form of Inequality – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1262 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1262 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Tom Fisk Preamble This blog post is based on insights from an article by James Karuga. Link at the end. When Heat Becomes Inequality: How South Asia’s Cities Are Being Redefined by Extreme Temperatures Heat used to be considered a weather problem. Now it is becoming a poverty problem. In South Asia, extreme heat is no longer simply an uncomfortable seasonal event. It is increasingly a force that determines who can work, who can sleep, who can remain healthy, and in some cases, who survives. The cruel truth is this: heat does not affect everyone equally. Recent analysis highlights how heatwaves are deepening urban inequality across South Asia, tu...

Global Wealth Inequality – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1175 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1175 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma    Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Avneet Kaur Lydia Gichuki - Writer Credit: Karola G Credit: MART Production Preamble This post is based on an article by Lydia Gichuki. She is a DevelopmentAid journalist based in Kenya, specializing in climate change reporting with a focus on the impacts on children and women. Her work has been featured in The Standard, Mtoto News, and other publications. Rich World, Poor Majority: Why Poverty Persists in an Age of Wealth On the surface, the global economy seems to surge forward. Wealth is at record highs. Yet, paradoxically, vast numbers of people remain trapped in poverty, even in societies that are rich, and in an era of unprecedented gl...