The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance are bringing together leaders and the global health community for a two-day meeting on December 10-11 to review progress half way through Gavi’s 2016-2020 investment period, examine challenges and refine actions for increasing access to immunisation in the world’s poorest countries to help empower the next…
NIAP’s Promotion of Irrigation Best Practices to Boost Food Security Lauded
By PATRICK AMUNAVI The Principal Secretary, State Department for Irrigation, Prof. Fred Segor has lauded efforts being spearheaded by the National Irrigation Acceleration Platform (NIAP) in advancing knowledge sharing, learning and building synergies to promote and upscale irrigation best practices amongst small-scale farmers in Kenya, thus contributing to the attainment of the Government’s Big Four…
Artificial Intelligence: Human Capacity Reimagined
By Adlyne Wangusi Following successful events in San Francisco, New York and London, the AI Summit Cape Town will be launched at AfricaCom this November with two days of stimulating presentations, debate and insights. The world’s leading conference on artificial intelligence and machine learning, it is aimed at CxOs, CDOs and leading innovators keen to future-proof their…
Southern Africa records lowest new TB cases
By Henry Opondo Southern Africa is a region that has witnessed the highest annual declines in new cases of tuberculosis, a new WHO’s 2018 Global TB Report, released in New York Tuesday shows. Countries such as Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe are experiencing reduction rates that range between 4-8%, thanks to better…
Sub-Saharan Africa: Child deaths on the rise amidst slowing preventive progress –UN report
A baby born in sub-Saharan Africa or in Southern Asia was nine times more likely to die in the first month than a baby born in a high-income country. Yet progress to saving newborns has not been slower than for other children under five years of age since 1990. In 2017, half of all deaths…
It is 21st century but 8 in 10 Africans still grope in darkness
By Adlyne Wangusi Only 2 Africans who live on the African continent have access to some form of energy and light the larger rest grope and wonder about in darkness, Hans Peter Christophersen who is a trade and energy counselor Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway said on Wednesday in Nairobi. Speaking at the Future…
Innovation dynamics in the agricultural sector
Michael Carus, one of the leading European bioeconomy experts and managing director of the nova-Institut (Hürth), initiator of the new conference “Revolution in Food and Biomass Production”, 1-2 October 2018, Cologne, in conversation with the editorial staff You’ve hosted so many conferences, and the new one is supposed to be the most exciting? Carus: The…
New 2018 cancer figures shed spotlight on Tobacco-Cancer burden link
By Henry Opondo The latest rising figures of new cancer cases by the the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) on Wednesday spotlight the link between tobacco usage and the disease that continues to kill millions of people worldwide. According to the figures, lung cancer, variously associated with tobacco use, ranks as the leading…