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.

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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.

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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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Diabetes, a disease linked to stress and change of lifestyle is now a major concern for the residents of Murang’a district of Kenya, recently hit by a spate of violent attacks by members of the dreaded Mungiki sect, and police who were out in search of Mungiki .

A new smokeless lighting technology that is set to replace pressure lamps used by Omena (sardines) fishermen in the 400 million-year old Lake Victoria is now available in Kenya.

The Kenya wildlife service is set to transform the Meru National Park into a world status facility after the world famous Mara and Serengeti National parks in Kenya and Tanzania respectively. This follows the rebranding of the park at a cost of Sh8.8 million.

There is need for Algeria to create a national environmental health plan based mainly on the analysis of ecological data and the definition of pollution risks and the modernisation of preventive medicine, a leading researcher said recently.
Africa’s capacity in handling and mitigating effects of highly infectious agents and life-threatening viruses is set to be stepped up as leading bio-safety and bio-security experts hold a five day conference at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Nairobi, Kenya.

When desert-like conditions started spreading to parts of Nakasongola, the pasture-rich grazing grounds became bare, making life miserable in the semi-arid areas.

The United Nations Environment Programme has announced Maria Kassabian, 10 years old from Abuja, Nigeria emerges as the regional winner in the 17th Children Global Painting Competition

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