Nigeria: Ganawa PHC - Abandoned for Four Years
[Nigeria Health Watch] Ganawa, a community with an estimated 2000 to 3000 people, in Tungan Wawa ward of Kontagora Local Government Area (LGA), Niger State, has been without access to healthcare for four years. Despite complaints to the authorities, nothing has been done to revive the Ganawa primary healthcare centre (PHC) centre that has been seemingly abandoned for the same length of time. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 17, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Improved Service Delivery At Autan Barde PHC - the Impact of Access to BHCPF
[Nigeria Health Watch] In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) built the Autan Barden Primary Health Care Centre (PHC) in Abayi, Nasarawa "B" Ward. It was handed over to the Chanchaga Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State and started operations in 2016. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 10, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Neglected Tropical Disease Mycetoma Research Gains Momentum
[IPS] Nairobi -- The disease burden and distribution of mycetoma--a neglected tropical disease--are not very well understood. However, it is known to affect people in Sudan, Senegal, Mauritania, Kenya, and Niger, as well as people in Nigeria, Ethiopia, India, and Cameroon. Cases have also been reported in Djibouti, Somalia, and Yemen. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 8, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Neglected Tropical Disease Mycetoma Research Gains Momentum
Patients outside the Mycetoma Research Center in Sudan. Credit: DNDi By Geoffrey KamadiNAIROBI, Apr 7 2023 (IPS) The disease burden and distribution of mycetoma—a neglected tropical disease—are not very well understood. However, it is known to affect people in Sudan, Senegal, Mauritania, Kenya, and Niger, as well as people in Nigeria, Ethiopia, India, and Cameroon. Cases have also been reported in Djibouti, Somalia, and Yemen.
“It is currently unknown what the incidence, prevalence and the number of reported cases per year per country is,” observes Dr Borna Nyaoke, head of the Mycetoma Program at the Drugs for Negl...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 7, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Geoffrey Kamadi Tags: Africa Featured Headlines Health Inequity TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Kenya Sudan Source Type: news
Nigeria: Women's Voices for Action and Access to Quality Maternal Health Care in Niger State - a Baseline Assessment
[Nigeria Health Watch] Despite decades of commitments, prioritisation and investments, Nigeria continues to grapple with preventable maternal and neonatal deaths. According to the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS), maternal mortality in Nigeria stands at 512 deaths per 100,000 live births and 132 deaths per 1,000 live births for children under age five. These statistics are very far from the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets of reducing maternal mortality to less than 70 deaths per 100,000 live births an (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 6, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
World Bank chief calls for dramatic hike in funding to help developing world
A dramatic increase in financial help is needed to help poor countries meet the $2.4tn (£1.9tn) annual cost of coping with the combined impact of wars, pandemics and the climate crisis, the outgoing head of the World Bank has said. Speaking in Niger, David Malpass defended his record for funding…#worldbank #niger #davidmalpass #donaldtrump #joebidens #johnkerry #ajaybanga #mastercard #imf #worldbanks (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Where Mining and Energy Projects Will Hurt Wildlife the Most
The world faces an incredibly tricky land crunch over the coming decades. On the one hand, we want to protect more wildlife, having realized the critical role nature plays in limiting climate change and sustaining human life. On the other hand, we want to generate more energy than ever before for fast-developing countries in the Global South, and transition the entire world to renewables. That’s going to require a lot of new power plants and mines, which can be devastating for wildlife.
A study published today in the journal Biological Conservation highlights that mammoth clash of interests. Researchers looked at a l...
Source: TIME: Science - March 23, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Ciara Nugent Tags: Uncategorized climate change Conservation embargoed study healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Nigeria: Tsado Kashi - Health Worker Forced to Convert Home to Makeshift Clinic
[Nigeria Health Watch] The people of Tsado Kashi, a rural community in Gbako Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State who are basically farmers had in the past sought healthcare from traditional healers until the government built a clinic in the community. However, years after its establishment, the facility is no longer functioning. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 18, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Niger: MSF Denounces Appalling Conditions for Migrants Abandoned in Assamaka
[MSF] Niamey -- Thousands of migrants deported from Algeria and abandoned in the desert of northern Niger are stranded without access to shelter, healthcare, protection, or basic necessities, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 17, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Niger: 'Don't Give Up On Niger' - Ambassador Cindy Mccain, Calls for Increased Donor Support Amidst Growing Food Insecurity
[WFP] Joint US/UN News Release/NIAMEY- The combined effects of conflict, climate shocks, and high food prices continues to drive hunger up and push basic meals out of the reach of millions in Niger, demanding immediate and collective action, United States Ambassador to the UN Agencies in Rome Cindy McCain told journalists at the end of their week-long, U.S.- sponsored field visit to Zinder, Dosso and Tillaberi regions. Following an unprecedented food crisis in 2022, Niger continues to face high levels of food in (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 10, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Niger Is Africa's Fastest Growing Country - How to Feed 25 Million More People in 30 Years
[The Conversation Africa] Niger, a landlocked country in the dry Sahel region of Africa, struggles to feed its 25 million people. It currently ranks 115th out of 121 countries on the Global Hunger Index, and the number of people not getting enough to eat has increased from about 13% of the population in 2014 to 20% in 2022. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 26, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Niger Is Africa's Fastest Growing Country - How to Feed 25 Million More People in 30 Years
[The Conversation Africa] Niger, a landlocked country in the dry Sahel region of Africa, struggles to feed its 25 million people. It currently ranks 115th out of 121 countries on the Global Hunger Index, and the number of people not getting enough to eat has increased from about 13% of the population in 2014 to 20% in 2022. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 26, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Case studies expose deadly risk of mpox in people with untreated HIV
In June 2022, a young man in his 30s severely sick with mpox, the viral disease formerly known as monkeypox, was admitted to the Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Health Sciences and Nutrition hospital in Mexico City. Tests showed the patient was also HIV-positive, which he had not known, and that his blood had few CD4 cells, critical immune cells that HIV attacks. The man’s immune system was so weak it could not keep mpox in check and painful lesions kept spreading across his body, eating away at, or necrotizing, the flesh, according to HIV researcher Brenda Crabtree Ramirez, who was on his care team. Then the vir...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 21, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
‘Disco Boy’ Review: A Fierce Franz Rogowski Can’t Save This Pretension-Plagued Debut
A young Belorussian attempts to make the dangerous trip across the EU to sign up for the French Foreign Legion while a young rebel leader in Niger and his sister attempt to help their people survive the ravages of post-colonialism in wildly uneven Berlinale competitor Disco Boy. A committed,…#belorussian #frenchforeignlegion #berlinale #discoboy #franzrogowski #irasachspassages #helenelouvart #giacomoabbruzzese #clairedenis #beautravail (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Hidden hydrogen: Earth may hold vast stores of a renewable, carbon-free fuel
IN THE SHADE
of a mango tree, Mamadou Ngulo Konaré recounted the legendary event of his childhood. In 1987, well diggers had come to his village of Bourakébougou, Mali, to drill for water, but had given up on one dry borehole at a depth of 108 meters. “Meanwhile, wind was coming out of the hole,” Konaré told Denis Brière, a petrophysicist and vice president at Chapman Petroleum Engineering, in 2012. When one driller peered into the hole while smoking a cigarette, the wind exploded in his face.
“He didn’t die, but he was burned,” Konaré continued. “And now we had a huge fire. The color of the ...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 16, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
