China's economy may never overtake the US as Beijing sets more cautious growth target, Rockefeller International chairman says
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks to Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba (not pictured) during a meeting in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China December 7, 2016. Reuters/Fred Dufour China's economy may not ever outpace the US, according to Rockefeller International's Ruchir Sharma.…#xijinping #alibongoondimba #greathallofpeople #beijing #reutersfreddufour #ruchirsharma #sharma #breakoutcapital (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Next Africa: Gabon Forest Fight is Key to Slowing Global Warming
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Source: Reuters: Health - March 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Uganda: Plan to Eliminate Mercury From Skin Lightening Products
[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- The Governments of Gabon, Jamaica and Sri Lanka have united in a $14 million project to eliminate the use of mercury in skin lightening products - a serious public health issue, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) announced on Feb.14 (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 1, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Africa CDC in Collaboration With Institut Pasteur De Dakar (IPD) Organized a Training On Molecular Diagnosis of Marburg Virus
[Africa CDC] Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- On 27 February 2023, the Africa CDC, in collaboration with Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD), launched a 3-day training on molecular diagnosis of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD). The training workshop targeted 10 participants from 5 African Union (AU) Member States: Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic, Gabon, and the Republic of Congo. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 1, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
MBA case study: fixing pharma in Gabon
The first in a series of teaching cases exploring business dilemmas. What would you do in this CEO’s shoes? (Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare)
Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare - February 12, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Armed with air samplers, rope tricks, and —yes—ants, virus hunters spot threats in new ways
On a Friday morning in September last year, Erik Karlsson visited the sprawling Orussey market here, where vendors hawked pots and pans, phone cords and radios, hats and dresses—and myriad types of Southeast Asian food. Dozens of orange-colored, whole roasted pigs hung on hooks, crabs the size of two fists filled buckets, and stacked fruit and dried fish formed mountains on tables.
Karlsson had come for the live poultry, but not because he was planning a dinner. As an epidemiologist at Cambodia’s Pasteur Institute, he was hunting for potentially dangerous pathogens, both known and unknown. He had nothing with him...
Source: ScienceNOW - January 5, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Today's Cheaper Gas Is The Calm Before 2023's Storm | ZeroHedge
Today's Cheaper Gas Is The Calm Before 2023's Storm Authored by Thomas McArdle via The Epoch Times, With some regions of America enjoying gasoline prices below $3 a gallon after a summer that saw the national average exceed $5 for the very first time, it’s tempting to lull oneself into thinking…#iraq #barackobama #ukraine #unitedarabemirates #thomasmcardle #algeria #epochtimes #donaldtrump #oman #gabon (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Biden announces U.S. support for African Union joining G20 By Reuters
By Jeff Mason, Daphne Psaledakis and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday announced he would support the African Union joining the G20 group of large economies as a permanent member, part of Washington's efforts to reinvigorate ties with a region that has taken…#africa #guinea #liberia #barackobama #westafricas #gabon #democraticrepublicofcongo #burkinafaso #africanunion #mali (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Progress on Tuberculosis Can Be Achieved in Africa
In Africa only 60% of the estimated TB cases have been diagnosed. All the other infections are hidden by poverty—and so the disease continues to spread. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPS. By Morounfolu OlugbosiJOHANNESBURG, Nov 8 2022 (IPS) The news in many parts of the world is that tuberculosis (TB) is reclaiming the title of the world’s most deadly infection, even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to kill an estimated 1,450 people daily around the world. But this is not news to African countries, which are home to one third of the people globally who die from TB, even though they have less than one fifth of the world’s po...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 8, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Morounfolu Olugbosi Tags: Africa Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations tuberculosis Source Type: news
Anti-Microbial Resistance Strategies Need Urgent Attention to Prevent Unnecessary Deaths in Africa
Africa’s laboratories need to step up testing to aid in fighting Anti-Microbial Resistance. This photo is a 3D computer-generated image of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, the pathogen responsible for causing the disease tuberculosis (TB). Credit: CDC/UnsplashBy Francis KokutseACCRA, Nov 3 2022 (IPS) African countries must find a way of fighting Anti-Microbial Resistance in the healthcare system to avoid unnecessary deaths.
A few months ago, the President of the Ghana Public Health Association, Amofah George, narrated how he saw a patient die after failing to respond to all the available antibiotics used for managing...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 3, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Francis Kokutse Tags: Africa Featured Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Source Type: news
Commitment to African Medicines Agency Needs More Than Words
To date, 19 countries have already ratified the treaty. However, this number remains far short of the 55 AU member states and excludes some of the region’s power houses such as South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Senegal. Credit: Charles Mpaka/IPSBy Johnpaul Omollo and Taonga ChilalikaNAIROBI/JOHANNESBURG, Apr 29 2022 (IPS) Across Africa, local manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies are responding to the urgent need for locally produced medical products and technologies despite the existing regulatory challenges. We can support manufacturing capacity by expediting the establishment and operationalisation of t...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 29, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Johnpaul Omollo and Taonga Chilalika Tags: Africa Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs Source Type: news
Gabon: Cheap and Deadly - An Epidemic of Fake Medicine
[ISS] Despite their dangers, counterfeit drugs are sold openly on the streets of major cities across the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 24, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Chimpanzees observed treating wounds of others, using crushed insects
Findings published in the journal Current Biology contribute to ongoing debate about empathy among animalsFor humans, the first instinct would be to disinfect it and then cover it with a bandage.But chimpanzees have invented a more creative method: catching insects and applying them directly to the open wound.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 8, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Agence France-Presse Tags: Animals Gabon Science Africa Wildlife Source Type: news
Chimps Catch Insects to Put on Wounds. Is It Folk Medicine?
They don ’t eat the bugs, and they’re definitely applying them to wounds, so some scientists think the primates may be treating one another’s injuries. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - February 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Nicholas Bakalar Tags: Monkeys and Apes Animal Behavior Animal Cognition Medicine and Health Insects Research Current Biology (Journal) Gabon your-feed-science your-feed-animals Source Type: news
Nine-year-old-boy accidentally amputates part of his own penis with a pestle and mortar
The nine-year-old boy was rushed to hospital in Libreville, Gabon, and treated three hours after smashing his genitals with the pestle onto the mortar between his legs. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
