Zambia: Zema Boss Calls for Stronger Collaboration On Pesticides, Toxic Substances Control
[Times of Zambia] The Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) Director General, Douty Chibamba has noted the need to strengthen collaboration with other relevant authorities at points of entry in relation to Pesticides and Toxic Substances (PTS) control. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 28, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Zambia: A Sewage Plant, Surveillance and Polio Fight in Zambia
[WHO-AFRO] Lusaka -- Environmental surveillance teams across Zambia are instrumental to the country's polio eradication programme. Since the outbreak of wild poliovirus in Malawi in February 2022, they have stepped up efforts for early detection as five countries in south-eastern Africa bolster the drive to vaccinate children and halt the virus. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - June 20, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Southern Africa: HIV Control Approaches May Not Work for TB - Lessons From South Africa and Zambia
[The Conversation Africa] Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most deadly infectious diseases. Around 9.9 million people around the world fell ill with the disease in 2020 and an estimated 1.5 million people died. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 7, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Comparative effectiveness of in-person vs. remote delivery of the Common Elements Treatment Approach for addressing mental and behavioral health problems among adolescents and young adults in Zambia: protocol of a three-arm randomized controlled trial - Figge CJ, Kane JC, Skavenski S, Haroz E, Mwenge M, Mulemba S, Aldridge LR, Vinikoor MJ, Sharma A, Inoue S, Paul R, Simenda F, Metz K, Bolton C, Kemp C, Bosomprah S, Sikazwe I, Murray LK.
BACKGROUND: In low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), there is a substantial gap in the treatment of mental and behavioral health problems, which is particularly detrimental to adolescents and young adults (AYA). The Common Elements Treatment Approach (C... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 23, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Zambia: Herbicides Threaten Edible Weeds in Zambia - That May Be Bad News for Local Food Security
[The Conversation Africa] The use of herbicides - substances that control unwanted plants - is on the rise across Africa. This trend has been referred to by some researchers as the "herbicide revolution". This trend is driven by cheap herbicides flooding into the continent from Asia and global agrochemical companies discovering Africa's emerging markets. Also, rural wages have risen due to rural-urban migration and structural transformation. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 19, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Zambia: 'Mushrooming Clinics Offering Unsafe Abortions'
[Times of Zambia] A RETIRED midwife on the Copperbelt has expressed concern over the alleged mushrooming of private surgery clinics that are offering unsafe abortions in various townships. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 17, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Child Labour: No Quick End to Children Trapped in Tobacco Production
Children working on tobacco farms in Chipangali District in Eastern Province of Zambia. Credit: Brenda Chitindi
“Most major tobacco producing countries use child labour in tobacco growing. Almost no cigarette can be
guaranteed to be free from child labour.”
British Medical Journal,...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 17, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Judith Mackay and Leonce Dieudonne Leonce Tags: Child Labour Development & Aid Featured Global Headlines Health Inequity IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
AI algorithm estimates gestational age of fetus on par with trained sonographer
New research published in NEJM examined the use of an AI algorithm in Zambia and North Carolina. (Source: mobihealthnews)
Source: mobihealthnews - April 22, 2022 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Unreported and unaddressed: students with disabilities experience of school violence in Zambia - Njelesani J, Si J, Swarm D.
BACKGROUND: Violence against school children is a prevalent global issue. Despite the high prevalence of school violence in Zambia, there is limited research on students with disabilities' experiences of school violence. OBJECTIVES: Guided by the s... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 13, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Zambia: 'Don't Discriminate Against People With TB'
[Times of Zambia] Health Minister Sylvia Masebo has cautioned society against discriminating against people with tuberculosis (TB). (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - April 6, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Wealthy Nations, Corporate Titans ’ False Promises of Fair COVID-19 Recovery Exposed, How Africa’s Inequality Deepened
Alice Atieno relies on sack farming outside her shanty in the sprawling Kibera Slums in Nairobi, Kenya. COVID-19 reversed gains made in poverty reduction, and the unequal access to vaccines has deepened global inequality. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS By Joyce ChimbiNairobi, Kenya, Mar 29 2022 (IPS) Even as COVID-19 brought Africa’s already fragile health care and economic systems to the brink, wealthy states colluded with corporate giants to dupe people with empty slogans and false promises of a fair recovery from the ongoing health pandemic, a newly released report by Amnesty International report finds.
The global human ri...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 29, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Joyce Chimbi Tags: Africa COVID-19 Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations #VaccineInequity IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Vaccines Source Type: news
‘Climate smart’ policies could increase southern Africa’s crops by up to 500%
Researchers outline urgent steps to improve food security in the face of increasing natural disasters caused by the climate crisisThe climate crisis is threatening food stocks in sub-Saharan Africa, but a comprehensive approach to food, farming and resources could increase crop production by more than 500% in some countries in the region, according to newresearch by more than 200 experts.There is no single technological fix to the threat posed by the barrage of natural disasters striking the region, they said, but significant improvements could be achieved with new approaches, based on modelling done by the network of rese...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 24, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Kaamil Ahmed Tags: Global development Food security Africa Agriculture Climate crisis Environment Science Society World news Source Type: news
Eradicating Polio Would Eradicate So Much Tragedy
A Pakistani child receives a dose of the oral polio vaccine (OPV). Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy Matshidiso MoetiBRAZZAVILLE, Mar 22 2022 (IPS) In the outskirts of Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, just beyond where paved roads transition to dirt, an undiagnosed polio infection paralysed a three-year-old girl. From one day to the next, the child’s life was changed forever.
Among Africa’s public health community, we had looked at our successes against wild poliovirus as a cause for optimism. In the 1990s, the disease paralysed more than 75,000 African children every year. But following extensive immunization campaigns coupl...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 22, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Matshidiso Moeti Tags: Africa Development & Aid Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Polio Source Type: news
Egypt: Egypt, Zambia Discuss Boosting Cooperation in Scientific, Health Fields
[Egypt Online] Acting Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar on Sunday discussed at a meeting with Zambian Ambassador in Cairo Topply M Lubaya means of boosting cooperation in scientific, research and health fields. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 21, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Incidental tuberculosis in sudden, unexpected, or violent deaths in the community Lusaka, Zambia - a descriptive forensic post-mortem examination study - Mucheleng'anga LA, Himwaze CM, Telendiy V, Simumba S, Soko J, Kayonde N, Mulenga B, Hamukale A, Shibemba AL, Lungu PS, Tembo J, Bates M, Chanda-Kapata P, Mwaba P, Kapata N, Ntoumi F, Zumla A.
OBJECTIVES: Tuberculosis remains a global emergency. In Zambia only 55% of tuberculosis cases are diagnosed. We performed a study to determine incidental cases of tuberculosis seen at forensic autopsy of individuals who died suddenly and unexpectedly in th... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 19, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
