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African media should take up the challenge of highlighting disasters unfolding in the continent more consistently and aggressively.

Health and Environment Ministers in Africa have resolved to build a strategic health and environment alliance to reduce environmental threats to human health and well being.

A meeting of vice-chancellors and senior academics of 18 universities and medical schools in 11 African countries unanimously agreed to introduce the Community-Driven Interventions (CDI) strategy into their curricula, which they said would contribute towards strengthening health systems, especially in resource-poor countries.

Improved management of the world's tropical forests has major implications for humanity's ability to reduce its contribution to climate change, according to a paper published last week in the international journal, Science.

Global health activists announced while gathered for the International Conference on AIDS and STDs in Africa (ICASA) in Dakar Senegal last week that nearly 6,000 people from 163 countries have signed a petition demanding insecticide-treated nets for malaria prevention for people living with HIV/AIDS, along with other preventative interventions and effective treatment, as an additional part of their health care.

Urgent policy measures and practical actions by governments and development partners with short and long term focus, chain approach with several elements targeting rural development and improved access to markets and reduced post harvest loses are the key issues to target in solving Africa’s food crises.