Luxury jabs: The cost of immunity in a two-tiered childhood
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Beyond Egypt’s mandatory pediatric schedule lies a costly, parallel tier of supplemental vaccines that effectively turns infant immunity into a commodity for the affluent.
Egypt leads the world in C-sections, but can the tide be turned?
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Egypt’s health ministry launches a plan to curb unnecessary C-sections through oversight, awareness, and digitization amid world-leading rates of the surgery, but will it work?
Summer camps at mosques and churches dominate children’s holidays, leaving few secular alternatives. Families turn to faith spaces as state cultural centers fade.
Egypt’s educational promise falters for stranded Syrian students
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Hundreds of Syrian students are locked out of Egypt mid-degree as visa delays and new entry rules derail academic dreams and drain families of tuition and housing costs.
