Pascale Ondoa and Yewande Alimi Staphylococcus aureus is the source of a skin infection that can turn deadly if drug resistant. Estimates regarding the most common resistant variation, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), exceed 100,000 deaths globally in 2019. But up until recently, we did not have a solid grasp on how much of a…
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Answering the challenges posed by antimicrobial resistance
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Malawi becomes first country in southern Africa to eliminate trachoma
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Narok’s sewer system cited as an example of how innovative technology can solve health challenges
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Answering the challenges posed by antimicrobial resistance
Farmers in South Sudan on a path to success
Small-scale farmers in South Sudan, working with Africa’s largest non-governmental organisation ForAfrika, are poised to harvest vegetables and cereal crops planted across a record 6 700 hectares (67 000km2), the organisation said on 22 September 2022. Hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people in South Sudan face starvation as climate change causes severe droughts…
Malawi becomes first country in southern Africa to eliminate trachoma
Malawi has become the first country in southern Africa and the fifth in Africa to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem – a disease that affected 7.6 million people nationwide in 2015. The disease is a devastating condition which can turn eyelashes inwards so that they scrape painfully against the eyeball – left untreated, this…
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Answering the challenges posed by antimicrobial resistance
Pascale Ondoa and Yewande Alimi Staphylococcus aureus is the source of a skin infection that can turn deadly if drug resistant. Estimates regarding the most common resistant variation, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), exceed 100,000 deaths globally in 2019. But up until recently, we did not have a solid grasp on how much of a…
Health
Answering the challenges posed by antimicrobial resistance
Pascale Ondoa and Yewande Alimi Staphylococcus aureus is the source of a skin infection that can turn deadly if drug resistant. Estimates regarding the most common resistant variation, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), exceed 100,000 deaths globally in 2019. But up until recently, we did not have a solid grasp on how much of a…
Agriculture
Farmers in South Sudan on a path to success
Small-scale farmers in South Sudan, working with Africa’s largest non-governmental organisation ForAfrika, are poised to harvest vegetables and cereal crops planted across a record 6 700 hectares (67 000km2), the organisation said on 22 September 2022. Hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people in South Sudan face starvation as climate change causes severe droughts…
Environment
Narok’s sewer system cited as an example of how innovative technology can solve health challenges
By Simon Thomas Kenya’s Narok Town’s first sewerage system has been internationally recognised for its positive effects on reducing incidences of waterborne diseases. Narok’s modern sanitary sewer network and treatment plant which was commissioned in late 2020 has been used as a case study at the Plastic Pipes XIII Conference, organised by the Southern African…