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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 health spending, an economist says. According to a new WHO Regional Office for Africa report, based on data from 47 countries, Africa lo

Human Rights , Labour , Migration , Refugees , Sustainable Development / 04/02/2019

Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania Seek Solutions to Irregular Migration on Southern Route

Irregular migration from the East and Horn of Africa to southern Africa, presents countries along this route with a new challenge: how to manage these flows while ensuring that the human rights of migrants are respected and protected. The ‘Southern Route’ – as this migration route is kno

Data & Reports , Featured , Food , Health , Human Rights , Refugees , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 02/13/2019

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 Sustainable Development, particularly the Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2).

Health , Sustainable Development / 11/19/2018

WHO launches new response initiative to put malaria control efforts back on track

To get the reduction in malaria deaths and disease back on track, WHO and partners are joining a new country-led response, launched to scale up prevention and treatment, and increased investment, to protect vulnerable people from the deadly disease. Reductions in

Data & Reports , Health , Sustainable Development / 11/10/2018

Novel approach brings African scientists closer to a malaria vaccine

Faith Osier, Wellcome Trust In experiments conducted over 50 years ago, researchers showed that blood could be taken from adults who had become immune and used to treat children admitted to hospital with malaria. Malaria is still a major problem in Africa. There are over 200 million clinical cases

Gender , Governance , Human Rights , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 09/23/2018

Empowering women lies at the centre of controlling population growth in Africa

Alex Ezeh, Drexel University Some relatively simple future scenarios for sub-Saharan Africa have been modelled to consider how various family planning-related investments might affect population growth. I think about the future of my continent in terms of three questions: Are Africans healthy? Do th

Featured , Health , Sustainable Development / 09/08/2018

African swine fever ‘devastating’ if it spreads beyond China

Fatima Arkin Virulent strain of African swine fever reported from eight locations in China Strain that entered country causes multiple organ failure, internal bleeding Virus may spread to South-east Asia, Vietnam at greatest risk Outbreaks of African swine fever reported from widely different parts

Biodiversity , Data & Reports , Environment , Featured , Food , Forests , Solutions , Sustainable Development / 07/22/2018

Retaining forests benefits African farmers, new study finds

Koen Kusters The closer a farm is located to a forest, the better it performs in terms of livestock productivity and long-term soil sustainability, according to a recent study conducted in southern Ethiopia. Additionally, proximity to a forest increases the ability to deal with shocks and equality

Environment , Health , Sustainable Development / 04/29/2018

Blood transfusions a ‘hidden’ malaria risk

Nelson Mandela Ogema The high prevalence of malaria parasites in blood for transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa could be a major setback in the fight against the disease in the region, a study suggests. The study, presented this month (15-20 April) at the 7th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) P

Environment , Sustainable Development , Water / 03/12/2018

Why UNESCO’s ‘natural solutions’ to water problems won’t work in Africa

Mike Muller Although nature based solutions are attractive, these solutions are not the ‘green bullet’ that will solve the world’s water problems. Each year UNESCO releases a World Water Assessment Report, a document that explores potential solutions to the globe’s water problems. The 2018 r

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