Liberia: Major Step in Malaria Prevention As Three West African Countries Roll Out Vaccine
[GAVI] Cotonou/Freetown/Monrovia -- In a significant step forward for malaria prevention in Africa, three countries - Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone - today launched a large-scale rollout of the life-saving malaria vaccine targeting millions of children across the three West African nations. The vaccine rollout, announced on World Malaria Day, seeks to further scale up vaccine deployment in the African region.Today's launch brings to eight the number of countries on the continent to offer the malaria vaccine as part of the childhood (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - April 25, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Benin Children and Youth Health and Medicine Liberia Malaria NGOs and Civil Society Sierra Leone West Africa Source Type: news
Africa: Communiqué - United in the Fight Against Mpox in Africa - High-Level Emergency Regional Meeting
[Africa CDC] We, the Ministers of Health of Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Uganda and partners, meeting in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo on 13 April 2024; (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 15, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Health and Medicine Source Type: news
Cut submarine cables cause web outages across Africa; 6 countries still affected
Thirteen countries across Africa experienced Internet outages on Thursday due to damage to submarine fiber optic cables. Some countries, including Ghana and Nigeria, are still suffering from nationwide outages. Multiple network providers reported Internet outages yesterday, and Cloudflare's Radar…#africa #ghana #nigeria #cloudflare #radar #westafrica #southafrica #benin #burkinafaso #cameroon (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Olive oil prices are skyrocketing. Here's how my startup is managing to keep costs low
Graza cofounder Andrew Benin talks about how the company keeps prices and quality low. Graza Olive oil prices are at record highs due to extreme environmental conditions. But olive oil startup Graza says it only marginally raised its prices. Graza cofounder Andrew Benin explains how — and why it's…#graza #andrewbenin #olive #spain #greece #drizzle #walmart #target (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mati Diop Doc ‘Dahomey’ Wins Berlin Golden Bear
Dahomey, a documentary from French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop, has won the Golden Bear for best film at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, the Berlinale. The multifaceted docu-fictional essay explores the return, in November 2021, of plundered royal treasures from the African Kingdom…#frenchsenegalese #matidiop #goldenbear #benin #palestine #berlinalejury #blackpanther #lupitanyongo #berlinalepalast #african (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A deadly viral illness is exploding in West Africa. Researchers are scrambling to figure out why
Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
Irrua, Nigeria, and Kenema, Sierra Leone—
Sitting on a bench outside the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH) in Edo state in southwestern Nigeria in September 2023, Muhammed Luqman Dagana recounted his ordeal earlier in the year with Lassa fever, a deadly hemorrhagic disease of West Africa. At first the 33-year-old wasn’t alarmed—his fever, headache, body aches, and cough were innocuous enough. A doctor at his local clinic gave him antibiotics for typhoid fever and antimalarial drugs. But his symptoms persisted, so he tried anoth...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 22, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
‘Dahomey’ Review: Mati Diop’s Audacious Doc Offers A Provocative View Of Modern Africa
Somebody — or something — is speaking from inside a timber crate. “It’s so dark in here… a night so deep and opaque” read the subtitles; the voice is speaking in Fon, the local language of the West African country that was once called Dahomey and is now Benin. As the slats are nailed down, the…#fon #westafrican #dahomey #behanzin #museebranly #portonovo #benin #frenchsenegalese #matidiop #makenzyorcel (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
‘Dahomey’ Review: Mati Diop’s Exquisitely Strange Documentary Meditation on the Return of Looted Artifacts to Benin
In November 2021, 61 years after Benin gained independence from the French empire, 26 of the many thousands of plundered national antiquities were returned by France to their African home. Inserting an inquisitive, imaginative intelligence into this key moment in the troubled timeline of…#african #matidiop #dahomey #beninsatlantic #ginaprincebythewoods #womanking #warlikekingdom #cctv #kinggezo #blackpower (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Prevalence of fatigue while driving among two-wheeled vehicle drivers and associated factors: exploratory approach from secondary analysis based on hospital data, Benin - Ahanhanzo YG, Kpozehouen A, Salami L, Gaffan N, Dos Santos BH, Lev êque A.
Fatigue while driving is one of the risk factors of road crashes. It's still poorly considered in interventions because of insufficient literature. In addition, the literature on this issue doesn't focus on two-wheelers, the most frequent users in the Beni... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news
Out of control: the trafficking of improvised explosive device components and commercial explosives in West Africa - Lochhead D, Diakit é T, Sollazzo R., Sow S, Tayo RS, Tettey L.
The use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in West Africa expanded dramatically between 2014 and 2022. As of 2022, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria were heavily affected by these weapons, while Benin, C ôte d'Ivoire, and Togo suffered fr... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Zanzibar ’s bid to be a pan-African tech and education hub
The News Zanzibar, the group of islands known for its sandy beaches and tourism resorts, has spent the last year making a concerted effort to reinvent itself as a global tech hub for African startups and digital natives. But it also now looks like the historical islands could also become a hub of…#african #panafrican #zanzibar #ase #siliconzanzibar #benin #princetonuniversity #iit #leonardwantchekon #semaforafrica (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Benin: Limiting Maternal and Child Loss in Communities in Benin
[MSF] After 15 years of absence, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has returned to the west African country of Benin, where we have opened two projects in the past year. One in the southwest of the country, aimed at strengthening healthcare for mothers and children; and a second in the north, to assist people affected by malaria and by recent violence who are struggling to access medical care. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 23, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Aid and Assistance Benin Children and Youth External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa NGOs and Civil Society West Africa Source Type: news
Germany pledges to invest €4-billion in green energy projects in Africa
The German government pledged Monday to invest €4-billion ($4.37-billion) in African green energy projects until 2030, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz saying that countries in Africa should benefit more from their wealth of raw materials. Scholz discussed the pledge at a news conference on the G20…#african #olafscholz #africa #scholz #g20compact #berlin #egypt #ethiopia #benin #burkinafaso (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How Kenya is leading the move towards a borderless Africa
Kenya will scrap visas for all African nationals by the end of the year, a move it hopes will open up trade and travel on the continent. Speaking at a climate change conference in Congo-Brazzaville, the country's president William Ruto said the removal of barriers was needed to realise the dream…#kenya #african #congo #williamruto #gambia #benin #seychelles #africa #interafrican #guardian (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Fire in shop kills 35 people in southeastern Benin
At least 35 people were killed in southeastern Benin on Saturday after a fire broke out at a shop where witnesses said gasoline was being unloaded, a justice ministry representative said. The fire broke out at 0930 local time in Seme-Podji municipality, near the border with Nigeria. "The fire…#justiceministry #nigeria (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
