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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The Government of Uganda has through its Ministry of Disaster Preparedness and Refugees declared that several parts of the country are expected to face flooding this September and October (but with no much precision on its severity).

Africa itself should invest in transgenic crops, according to Robert Paarlberg, Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

The Stop TB Partnership's Global Drug Facility (GDF) has delivered 16.5 million anti-tuberculosis (TB) treatments since its creation in 2001. GDF's 13th Progress Report, published Thursday, reports that some 2.4 million treatments were delivered in 2009 alone.

A new global map of malaria has been released by the Malaria Atlas Project  a multinational team of researchers funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Health workers who take jobs in remote and rural areas do it for more than just the money, according to research published in this month's issue of the international public health journal, the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.

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.

Algeria’s Minister of Post and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) said Thursday that although the mobile phone has grown rapidly in the country, its services are not fully exploited, despite the rich options available.

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