Health

Global Health Plan Aims to End a Third of Childhood Deaths

• Published on 22 Apr. 2013 • Category : HealthThe United Nations has unveiled a major framework aimed at, for the first time, coordinating worldwide efforts to work simultaneously to end childhood pneumonia- and diarrhoea-related deaths by 2025.Together, these two diseases account for around 30 percent of all deaths of children under five years old, around two million every year. According to new data released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF), most such deaths are taking place due to “piecemeal” services that are failing to reach the most at risk.“Children who are poor, hungry and living(...)

African Health Ministers commit to ramped up TB/HIV treatment

• Published on 09 Apr. 2013 • Category : HealthHealth ministers from Swaziland and South Africa have agreed to radically change the diagnosis and treatment of the co-epidemic of TB/HIV in their countries. They made their comments at a press conference held on March 20 in Johannesburg. Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF, said TB deaths in southern Africa account for 40 percent of all TB deaths globally, and it remains the leading cause of death for people with HIV. In addition, death rates are highest among TB patients with multi-drug, or MDR, resistance to tuberculosis because fast and accurate diagnosis is rarely availab(...)

African Health Ministers commit to ramped up TB/HIV treatment

Food and drug regulators to cut counterfeits

• Published on 20 Mar. 2013 • Category : Health Foods and Drug regulators in Africa have been urged to form joint ventures in the fight against counterfeits through regional integration. It is hoped that this will be the best way to curb substandard products in the African market. Speaking to East African Business Week in Dar es Salaam, the Chief Executive Officer of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development Agency (NEPAD), Dr Ibrahim Mayaki said regional integration will foster the fight against counterfeit and substandard products in the African continent. "Regional integration in Africa is crucial step against cou(...)

27 Million Women to Access Reversible Contraceptive.

• Published on 13 Mar. 2013 • Category : Health An unprecedented group of public and private sector partners has finalized an agreement that will make Jadelle®, an effective, long-acting, reversible contraceptive implant, available to more than 27 million women in the world's poorest countries at a more than 50 percent price reduction over the next six years. The Jadelle Access Program – developed and supported through a partnership between Bayer HealthCare AG, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), the Governments of Norway, the United Kingdom, the United States and Sweden, and the Chi(...)

Country Coordinating Mechanisms and Women

South African Swayed by Windpower

Investing in Africa: Mind the bumps and the rewards will come

Culture is the New Resistance

Global Health Plan Aims to End a Third of Childhood Deaths

Skills shortage could hamper Africa growth surge

Is Tanzania’s economic growth an urban phenomenon?

Who Owns the Land? Cameroon's Large-Scale Land-Grabs

Innovation Leadership Training Program launching in Zambia

Open Borders top EALA talks

Open Borders top EALA talks

Solar Powered Internet School Opens World of Possibilities in Uganda

Women key to Africa’s development

Ethiopian capital to burn waste, hopes for energy bonanza

African Development Bank aims to boost investment to EAC

Africans enrolled in Chinese Universities up 30 percent in 2012.

African Health Ministers commit to ramped up TB/HIV treatment

African Health Ministers commit to ramped up TB/HIV treatment

12 million Africans entering the job Market every year.

Emphasis on new Infrastructure driving a maintenance deficit.

Rwanda’s ICT ambition bearing fruit

Namibia examines BRICS

Solar Powered Internet School Opens a World of Possibilities in Uganda

By 2050, one in three children will be born in Sub-Saharan Africa

New York African Film Festival Returns To FSLC April 3-9 To Celebrate Its 20th Anniversary

First women-initiated bank launched in Ethiopia

Lagos creating energy from waste

Citi Bank to start operations in Ghana

Nigeria set to overtake SA as Africa's biggest economy

Food and drug regulators to cut counterfeits

Gulf carriers aim for bigger slice of Africa market

Can floating architecture save this Nigerian slum?

Rwanda to host Agribusiness Forum.

South Africa's Naspers in $570 million Russia internet deal

Burundi supports border communities.

Tanzanias financial sector is stable.

Gambia gets its first Journalism School

How African Feminism Changed the World.

Rwanda gets U.S. $60 Million for Sustainable Energy

Japan Boosts Private Sector Investment

27 Million Women to Access Reversible Contraceptive.

o Ghanian Entrepreneur Assembles trucks aimed at Industrial Production

PPPs to Develop Africa’s Infrastructure?

South Africa, Belarus discuss cooperation in Agriculture

Google in Africa

Zimbabwe looks to boost FDI

Nigeria and Brazil Strengthen Economic Ties

Ugandan Vocational Training School gets US $82Million

FAO Report: Women in Agriculture

African Union: Empowering Women in Agriculture

Brazil tips Dar es Salaam on gas economy

Potential in Africa’s renewable energy

Ethiopia: Heineken to build the country's largest brewery in Ethiopia

African hotel wins worlds best hotel for second year in a row by Travel + Leisure.

Rwandan students to learn Chinese language

New malaria drugs give hope to eradication

In Rwanda 3000 teachers to enter the labor market

Biogas looks to women to expand sector.

Rwanda gets US $60m to develop energy sector

Africa’s first Pan-African airline hits 75,000 passengers.

Ambitious infrastructure project funded through contractor financing

Zimbabwe’s tobacco crop down 3 million in 2012.

U.A.E. and Zimbabwe discuss multi-billion-dollar cooperation

S.A. task force to monitor agriculture emissions

Nokia's Life launched in Kenya, hits 95 million global users

Africa is more stable than you've been led to think.

Uganda, Kenya coffees top in Africa

Uganda student wins Africa IT award

Are African women on the rise?

Mozambique receives U.S.$9.3 Million for girls education.

Malawi President Joyce Banda featured in CFR remarkable women of 2012.

New oil deposits in Kenya may be commercially viable

South Sudan and Sudan come to agreement to resume oil exports.

New laws to stabilize oil market in Ghana.

Expert engaged to set up futures exchange in Nairobi

Analysis of micro enterprise growth in Africa and transitions to SME’s.

Kenya demarcating 9 blocks of territory for auction of license to oil and gas exploration.

Could the next pope come from Africa?

Africa forecast to be a $45 billion pharma market by 2020

Scientist in Benin unveil enhanced malaria test