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Body pleads for palliative care services Archeologists discover oldest Roman baths TB: Organisations fight government over arrest of TB patients Guinea-Bissau sign-up boosts prospects for world water treaty ‘Orange’ Maize is a good source of Vitamin A, Scientists say Body Releases New Plan To Get an HIV Vaccine African freshwater species threatened – livelihoods at stake Regional Forum to Discuss Biosphere Reserves in Africa Liberia calls for support to the water, sanitation sector HIV researchers join in perpetrating violence against women, activists say

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Kenya launches biodiversity atlas

Written by Eric Akasa and Anthony Aisi
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
*Kenya’s Forestry and Wildlife Minister, Dr Noah Wekesa, recently launched the Biodiversity Monitoring Transect Analysis (BIOTA) East Africa Atlas at the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) headquarters.* Read More Add Comment (0) Hits: 724

Avian Influenza: FAO conducts lab quality training for West Africa region

Written by ASNS in Gambia
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)and the USAID have organized the second regional Training on Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Quality Assurance in Gambia so as to strengthen the region’s capacity to effectively respond to outbreaks and epidemics of livestock diseases. Read More Add Comment (0) Hits: 890

Pain management: Clinicians ignorant on use of opioids

Written by Henry Neondo
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
While the use of opioids is not illegal in Kenya, clinician’s ignorance, attitude, lack of skills/knowledge, strict laws in supply chain, ignorance of the public (patients) continue to hamper management of pain among palliative patients, Dr Zipporah Ali, the National Coordinator, Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA) says in this interview with the Africa Science News Service and adds that the high costs of Opioids- including taxes which need to urgently be addressed. Read More Add Comment (0) Hits: 632

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Muga Joel Got a Kenya Wildlife Service Ranger who got killed while on duty was named among winners named Monday as recipients of the prestigious 2010 Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Awards for their heroic efforts of enforcing wildlife laws and for often putting their lives in jeopardy to protect wildlife. He was one of the two Kenyans named for the award. The other is Sergeant John Laigwanani.

The National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) announced Wednesday the top winners of the second round of the 2010 Africa Rural Connect (ARC) ideas competition.The winners of round two for the ARC 2010 ideas competition go to Christopher Thompson of the United States and Derek Bruce of Kenya.

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

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.

In the face of warming ocean waters due to climate change, some coral reefs off East Africa are demonstrating unusual resiliency. Supporting the well-being of over half the world's population collectively, these reefs however are compromised by management practices that fail to recognize ecosystem interconnections, according to renowned experts who today published a practical guide for improving marine protection.

That malaria continues to kill innocent children when the disease is preventable and treatable is an anathema to scientists and the race to come up with new tools that would either help eliminate the disease or bring it under complete control is on....at times at a heavy trampling of human rights. But Prof Wen Kalema, coordinator of the African Malaria Network, AMANET says this should not be so.

The prospect of efficiently controlling HIV persistence in infected persons was the topic of a high-level, two-day meeting of researchers gathered here on the eve of AIDS 2010, the biennial international conference of HIV researchers, funders, policy-makers and advocates. The question top of their minds was; can HIV infection ever be cured?

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