Care for animals key to successful livestock production
Written by Anthony Aisi and Erick Akasa   
Saturday, 31 July 2010

In a world food prize laureate seminar organized by International Livestock research Institute on Friday, the Heifer International president and the world food prize laureate winner Jo Luck said success of livestock production in Kenya and the sub-Saharan African countries at large depends on people knowing how to care for animals.

 
WFP promises to double food purchases from rural Ugandan village
Written by Anthony Aisi   
Saturday, 31 July 2010

WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran pledged at the weekend to double the amount of food that the organization buys from women farmers in the Millennium Village of Ruhiira, Uganda where a strategic, integrated approach to rural development is already changing lives.

 
AU to mobile resources for child and maternal health, promise to review Abuja declaration
Written by Henry Neondo   
Friday, 30 July 2010

Africa’s Heads of State 15th AU Summit held in Kampala, Uganda, from 19 to 27 July adopted actions to be undertaken in various Member State, in particular the actions aimed at attaining the MDGs 4, 5 and 6, mobilisation of adequate resources for integrated health programmes up to 15% of national budgets, the sharing of best practices within regions, regular evaluation and reporting of progress achieved by Member State.

 
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War against HIV/Aids and premature deaths out of tuberculosis could be a thing of the past in Kenya as depicted by a pilot project in one Hospital in central Kenya.

Botswana has denied Thursday that there is reported outbreak of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in the country.

It will now be possible for the government to monitor the distribution of ARVs as well as map persons on ARTs at the click of a button following the launch, this week in Nairobi, of a wireless healthcare program.

Findings of a new study have revealed that AFRICANS have startling diversity of genetic make-up than anyone else.

Africa needs microbicides for both vaginal and rectal use in prevention of mucosal infection of HIV, a mini-symposium at the ongoing International Microbicides Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US was told. The symposium heard that the contribution to HIV flame in Africa by the anal route is still under-reported and that time to unpack the myth was long overdue.

Despite the increase of resources allocated to malaria control over the past few years, the financial needs necessary to cover basic interventions remain high.

On  March 24 1882, Robert Koch, a German physician and scientist, discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB). Since then, the world has been marking the day as the World's TB Day and a century later today, TB is still posing a challenge, thanks to the “unholy marriage” with the HIV and AIDS

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