EAC Council Ministers Resolve to Address Climate Change, Food Security
Written by Suleiman Mbatiah   
Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Eliminating hunger and ensuring sustainable food security within the region is a necessary step towards poverty eradication, an East African Community council was told in Kisumu, Kenya.

 
WHO adds new ACT against malaria, releases new treatment guidelines
Written by Henry Neondo   
Wednesday, 10 March 2010

malariaThe World Health Organization (WHO) has added a new Artemisinin based combination therapy to the existing one in its new guidelines for the treatment of malaria released Tuesday. The guidelines emphasize testing for malaria before treatment---a a critical step forward in the fight against malaria as it will allow for the targeted use of ACTs for those who actually have malaria.

 
Plan to reintroduce death penalty by Mauritian Government opposed
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010
The Mauritian Prime Minister’s recent announcement that he was planning to reintroduce the death penalty in an attempt to reduce drug trafficking in the country, if successfully passed,   would bring on a public health disaster and drive injecting drug use underground in a country where some 90 per cent of HIV infections are among injecting drug users (IDUs), the International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) said Tuesday.

 
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The Fourth Meeting of the Parties to African-Eurasian Flyways for migratory waterbirds, AEWA (MOP4) begins in Antananarivo, Madagascar today and it is expected that participants will discuss declining populations of migratory waterbirds along their main migration routes in Africa and Eurasia. The decline is estimated at 41 per cent.

Suspected cholera outbreaks do not have to occur in Somalia on a periodic basis, UNICEF Representative Christian Balslev-Olesen, said today on the eve of the World Water Day.

Farmers are set to benefit from a $4.5 million cassava value-adding project, aimed at raising the profile of the tuber crop from being a “poor man’s crop” to a profitable and sustainable source of income.

Kenya legislated the Biosafety Act 2009 to govern research and utilization of modern biotechnology. This legislation came at an ideal time when emerging issues like food security, climate change, tourism development, the Mau forest crisis among other issues were being explored. One of the areas this technology could be handy in a holistic approach is in the reclamation of the Mau forest.

A new initiative to build scientific capacity in Africa has named its first three research and training networks following a competitive selection process.

Refugees based in Africa were recipient of over 600,000 long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed nets in 2009, the United Nations Foundation's Nothing But Nets—a global, grassroots campaign to prevent malaria in Africa said in a report released Friday. The Foundation adds that more than one million refugees were covered.

A Global Portal that offers a wealth of information on wild relatives of crops will be launched on May 20 in Bonn, Germany at the 9th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

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