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
Written by ASNS   
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 need for clean water in Kenya can not be gain-said. But this can only be done if the country can clean her water sources, said to be heavily polluted by among others---raw human waste.

Cowpea experts from across the globe will converge in Dakar , Senegal from 27 September to 1 October 2010 for the 5th World Cowpea Research Conference to tackle research issues related to enhancing the profile of cowpea as a viable income generating and food security crop.


Botswana is at an advanced stage to formulate a legislation, which will regulate traditional health practitioners.

Tanzanian Director of Hospital Services in the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Dr Zakaria Berege has challenged the health professionals to keep themselves abreast of current events and technological advances to prevent and reduce the burden of diseases.

Angola and Sierra Leone were among the first 11 nations to have signed a new treaty that aims to close fishing ports to ships involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing which has been approved by FAO's governing Conference.

From September 29 to October 3, 2008, more than 300 policy makers, scientists, land users and other stakeholders from 15 African countries and Germany will discuss solutions for the challenges to Africa’s basis for survival – biological diversity – at an international congress at Spier, Stellenbosch , South Africa .

An agreement in Copenhagen to fund reduced emissions from deforestation may generate multiple environmental and economic benefits if investments simultaneously target sites that are both carbon and biodiversity-rich. But the new report, published today in the journal Conservation Letters, also warns of challenges in countries such as Brazil and parts of East Africa unless safeguards are followed.

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