Dr. Mags Portman, HIV Prevention Pioneer, Dies from Mesothelioma at 44
Dr. Mags Portman, a British trailblazer in the fight to prevent and control HIV, died Wednesday after a two-year battle with mesothelioma.
She was 44.
Portman was lauded for triggering a significant reduction in HIV diagnoses throughout the United Kingdom by her work as a researcher, clinician and outspoken advocate.
She earned international acclaim for her work as an HIV consultant at London’s Mortimer Market Centre, a progressive sexual health clinic that made pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) a reality in the U.K.
Portman played a key role in the 2014 study at The Royal London Hospital that proved the efficacy of the d...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - February 14, 2019 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Matt Mauney Source Type: news
Nearly 1,000 Madagascar children dead of measles since October - WHO
At least 922 children and young adults have died of measles in Madagascar since October, despite a huge emergency vaccination program, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Nonprofit drug developer in uphill battle against Trump administration contraception rule change
Medicines360 launched its low-priced contraceptive last year in Madagascar. It is awaiting regulatory approval in Kenya, and it has asked the Nigerian government for a green light.
One country, however, is causing the leaders of the San Francisco-based nonprofit significant angst: the United States.
Proposed rule changes by the Trump administration would limit the availability of and access to Medicines360’s long-acting, reversible intrauterine device, or IUD. While a dec ision could have serious… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - February 14, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ron Leuty Source Type: news
Nearly 1,000 Madagascar children dead of measles since October: WHO
At least 922 children and young adults have died of measles in Madagascar since October, despite a huge emergency vaccination program, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Measles Epidemic Rocks Madagascar
The outbreak has infected 50,000 people and killed 300, most of them children, since cases began to crop up in October 2018. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - February 7, 2019 Category: Science Tags: News & Opinion Source Type: news
Thousands infected in measles outbreak in Madagascar
Measles found Hasina Raharimandimby and her family. Over three heartbreaking days in late January, three of her young children died of the virus. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - February 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Measles – Madagascar
WHO is supporting the Ministry of Public Health of Madagascar to respond to an unusually large measles outbreak. (Source: WHO Disease Outbreaks)
Source: WHO Disease Outbreaks - January 17, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: news Source Type: news
Six in 10 wild coffee species endangered by habitat loss
Kew scientists ’ analysis of 124 wild species shows 60% facing possible extinction, risking viability of commercial stock Wild coffee species are under threat, with 60% of them facing possible extinction, including Arabica, the original of the world ’s most popular form ofcoffee, researchers say.Most coffee species are found in the forests of Africa and Madagascar. They arethreatened by climate change and the loss of natural habitat, as well as by the spread of diseases and pests.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 16, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent Tags: Endangered species Coffee IUCN red list of endangered species Conservation Kew Gardens Plants Ethiopia Sierra Leone Africa Environment Wildlife Science World news Source Type: news
Mandate impossible: mediation and the return to constitutional order in Madagascar (2009-2013) - Witt A.
This article explores former President Joaquim Chissano's mediation in Madagascar after the 2009 political crisis that led to the ouster of President Marc Ravalomanana. It shows that there are inherent tensions in mediating the reestablishment of constitut... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 15, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Montana State-led project to prevent bat-borne diseases wins $10 million grant
(Montana State University) In an effort to prevent some of the world's most lethal diseases, an international research team spanning five continents and led by Montana State University will study bats in Australia, Bangladesh, Madagascar and Ghana. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 4, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
'Magma shift' may have caused mysterious seismic wave event
Vibrations off Madagascar baffled experts but now they believe they have the answerIt is the kind of mystery scientists relish. On 11 November, something stirred near the French island of Mayotte off the west coast of Madagascar and sent a rumble around the world. Travelling at 9,000mph, the deep hum hurtled past earthquake detection systems unnoticed. No one appears to have felt a thing.The event came to light on Twitter when seismology enthusiasts posted weird signals they had spotted in recordings made by seismic stations from Kenya to Hawaii. Having ruled out the violent lurches of an earthquake, educated guesses gave ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 30, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: Science Earthquakes World news Madagascar France Africa Source Type: news
Detective mission to characterize and trace the history of a new African meteorite
(University of the Witwatersrand) Researchers from Wits and colleagues from the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar are on a 'detective mission' to describe, classify and trace the history of a meteorite that landed in and around the small town of Benenitra in southwestern Madagascar shortly before the lunar eclipse on July 27, 2018. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - November 27, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Natatanuran frogs used the Indian Plate to step-stone disperse and radiate across the Indian Ocean
(Science China Press) The evolutionary history of near-cosmopolitan Natatanuran frogs involved using the Indian Plate as a stepping-stone to disperse between Africa, Asia and Madagascar. This research, led by Dr. Jing Che (KIZ, CAS), together with an international team, challenges the traditional view that the Indian Plate ferried biota across the Indian Ocean and carried Gondwanan biodiversity to Asia in the Early Tertiary. The research provides exciting new insights into Indian Ocean biotic exchanges. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - November 12, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Ambitious Agenda, Ambitious Financing? UNGA Shows a Long Way Still to Go for SDGs
Discussions around the strategy’s launch revealed plenty of evidence recognising the urgency of transforming economic and financial systems to advance sustainable development. Research by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), launched on the morning of the Secretary-General’s High-Level Meeting, points to alarming trends in several of the SDGs.Four hundred million people are likely to be living in extreme poverty in 2030; there is slow progress in reducing inequalities in wealth, income or gender; world hunger is on the rise; and access to safe water and sanitation is actually in decline in some countries.These hum...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 5, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: John Garett and Kathryn Tobin Tags: Environment Featured Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Population Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Water & Sanitation Source Type: news
Madagascar:Rich in Agriculture, Madagascar Suffers From Extreme Malnutrition
[IPS] Antananarivo -As much as 80 percent of Madagascar's population of 24 million people is involved in agriculture and the country's economy largely depends on the sector, yet 48 percent of households are faced with food insecurity according to the National Nutrition Office (NNO). Over 70 percent of households live below the national poverty line of 535,603 Malagasy ariary per year (1 U.S. dollar equals 3,447.50 ariary). (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 24, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news
