Environment
New waste treatment plant brings hope to Rohingyas
AJM Zobaidur Rahman Soeb A faecal waste treatment plant – the largest of its kind in the world – in a Rohingya refugee camp […]
Category: Health
Data & Reports
Diseases cost Africa US$2.4 trillion
Stephanie Achieng’ If Africa hopes to reverse the continent’s massive annual loss of productivity due to diseases, it needs to urgently improve efficiency in […]
Aid
Acute hunger affecting over 100 million people worldwide
113 million people in 53 countries experienced high levels of food insecurity in the world’s most severe food crises in 2018 A report by […]
Environment
‘Medieval’ Diseases Flare in US As Unsanitary Living Conditions Proliferate
Anna Gorman Infectious diseases — some that ravaged populations in the Middle Ages — are resurging in California and around the country, and are […]
Sustainable Business
Communities challenge lithium production in Argentina
Sabrina Roth Indigenous communities in Jujuy reject extraction, saying it violates rights and depletes water resources North-east Argentina forms one corner of a now […]
Health
WHO launches new global influenza strategy
WHO released a Global Influenza Strategy for 2019-2030 aimed at protecting people in all countries from the threat of influenza. The goal of the […]
Data & Reports
First ever global scientific eating plan forgets the world’s poor
Silvia Alonso Alvarez, International Livestock Research Institute ; Isabelle Baltenweck, International Livestock Research Institute ; Lora Iannotti, Washington University in St Louis, and Paula […]
Aid
Ebola Escalated Response: WB commits US$80 Million to DR Congo
The World Bank Group and the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF) have approved a total of up to US$80 million in grants to support over half […]
Data & Reports
New UN report reveals that hunger in Africa continues to rise
Hunger in Africa continues to rise after many years of decline, threatening the continent's hunger eradication efforts to meet the Malabo Goals 2025 and the 2030 Agenda for...
Data & Reports
Change diets and food production to save people and planet, says Lancet
The first challenge is that global levels of both hunger and obesity are growing. The second challenge is that the world’s food systems are unsustainable.
Sustainable Business
Secretive ‘Rebate Trap’ in US Keeps Generic Drugs For Diabetes And Other Ills Out Of Reach
Rebate trap joins a long history of efforts by makers of brand-name drugs to stifle generics, including protecting drugs with multiple layers of dubious patents, “pay for delay”...
Corruption
UNAIDS leader to resign next year after review voices “no confidence”
Laura Owings An independent panel report, identified systematic bullying, abuse and sexual harassment under his watch. Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAIDS, the agency overseeing […]