Gambia: U.S Extends Anti-Malaria Support to Gambia
[The Point] To mark World Malaria Day, U.S. President Joseph Biden announced that the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) will form a partnership with The Gambia as part of the effort to eliminate malaria around the world. This announcement, which also included Burundi and Togo, will increase the number of PMI partner countries to 30, with 27 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and three in Southeast Asia. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - April 28, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
27 Countries Facing the Worst Climate Change Catastrophes
Climate change continues to wreak havoc across the world. Several states are reeling from severe spring flooding, and parts of the country are still recovering from last year’s brutal hurricane season. Meanwhile, a study by Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology released this…#hdi #etr #africa #burundi #chad #congo #somalia #southsudan #uganda #yemen (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Africa: Polio - Leading Virologist Offers a Beginner's Guide to the Different Viruses and Vaccines
[The Conversation Africa] On 17 March 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that health officials in Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) had detected cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus. The WHO said the Burundian government had declared the detection of the virus a national public health emergency after three cases were confirmed. The Conversation Africa's Wale Fatade spoke to virologist Oyewale Tomori, who maps out the terrain of polio viruses, and their mutations, as well as what's happening on the vacci (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - March 30, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Three die from mystery nosebleed-causing disease in Burundi
Cases have all been logged in north eastern Burundi in the commune of Gitobe in the Kirundo province and the Butihinda commune, in the province of Muyinga. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Q & A: Bioengineer Mireille Kamariza can ’t wait to see what’s next
When Mireille Kamariza joined theUCLA Samueli School of Engineering as an assistant professor of bioengineering in January, she brought with her an early record of innovation.Just a decade after earning her undergraduate degree at UC San Diego, Kamariza has already developed a potential point-of-care diagnostic test for tuberculosis. TB is the world ’s second-deadliest infectious disease, behind COVID-19, and still a serious burden in low-income countries.In the late 2010s, as a doctoral fellow at Stanford University, Kamariza and colleagues designed a system with a fluorescent “reporter” molecule attached to a sugar...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - March 23, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
News at a glance: Modernizing bed nets, IDing a Solar System visitor, and health lessons from Beethoven ’s hair
PUBLIC HEALTH
Next-gen bed nets get go-ahead
A new type of malaria-fighting bed net
received a major endorsement
from the World Health Organization (WHO) last week. The net combines two chemicals to more effectively kill the mosquitoes that transmit the parasite behind malaria, a disease that killed an estimated 619,000 people in 2022, most of them young children in sub-Saharan Africa. Insecticide-treated bed nets have helped drive malaria rates down dramatically. But in recent years, resistance to the insecticide used to treat nets, pyrethroid, has been spreading. That has contributed to ...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 23, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Detected in Burundi, Congo Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Detected in Burundi, Congo
Health officials in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have detected cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus, the World Health Organization and Global Polio Eradication Initiative said.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - March 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Burundi: Burundi Announces First Polio Outbreak in More Than 30 Years
[UN News] Health authorities in Burundi on Friday said that they had detected eight samples of polio, officially declaring the landlocked African nation's first outbreak in more than 30 years. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 18, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Burundi: Country Announces First Polio Outbreak in More Than 30 Years
[UN News] Health authorities in Burundi on Friday said that they had detected eight samples of polio, officially declaring the landlocked African nation's first outbreak in more than 30 years. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - March 18, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Outbreak of Polio Linked to Newer Oral Vaccine Detected in Africa
(MedPage Today) -- For the first time, cases of paralytic polio have been linked to the novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2), with multiple cases detected in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Global Polio Eradication Initiative... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - March 17, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news
New evidence on the rural poverty and energy choice relationship
We combine a global micro level dataset that includes 17 different rural Sub-Saharan countries with satellite information about precipitation during the growing season to estimate the impact of economic conditions on energy choice. Differently from the existing literature, we aim to causally…#hypothesis5678910 #experiment15 #dhs #usaid #googleearthengine #tablea1 #africa #burkinafaso #burundi #ethiopia (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Charting Three Decades Of The World's Working Poor
Charting Three Decades Of The World's Working Poor Poverty is often associated with unemployment - however, millions of working people around the world are living in what’s considered to be extreme poverty, or less than $1.90 per day. Thankfully, the world’s population of poor workers has…#workingpoorpoverty #visualcapitalst #gilbertfontana #africa #easternasia #burundi #madagascar #democraticrepublic #congo (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A new migration crisis is brewing in Europe
L , Belgrade. The Serbian capital attracts many tourists from far and wide, there to enjoy its diverse architecture and meat-heavy cuisine. One recent batch of arrivals has raised eyebrows, however. Few would have expected citizens of Burundi, the poorest country in the world, to plump for a…#emmanuelmacron #angelamerkel #libya #serbia #africans #austria #kosovo #greece #southerneuropeans #serbians (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Burundi: Burundi Declares Cholera Outbreak
[Independent (Kampala)] Bujumbura, Burundi -- Burundian Public Health and AIDS Control Minister Sylvie Nzeyimana on Sunday evening declared an outbreak of cholera in the east African country's commercial capital Bujumbura. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 3, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Prototypes for Humanity: 100 ideas to change the world
A chair that transforms into a life raft, a leftover banana crop repurposed into reusable bags; 100 of the world’s best brains come together with ideas that could save the world. The brightest and youngest academic minds have descended on Dubai for the first Prototypes Against Humanity event. 100…#cofounderdesign #filipino #oceans #aleksanderwieneke #euros #noah #tadeubaldanicaravieri #burundi #euronews #moritzschulz (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
