Agriculture & Nutrition
Chad: Children unprotected as polio spreads
As polio strikes more and more people in Chad - 68 cases so far this year - tens of thousands of children are unprotected largely due to flaws in how vaccination campaigns are run....
Pakistan: Unsafe water kills 250,000 children a year
After several weeks of severe sickness, with unrelenting diarrhoea and high fever, Shamshad Ali, aged five, from a village near the town of Sheikhupura in Punjab Province, finally feels strong enough to venture out of his house again....
Global stillbirths: 2.6 million a year, overlooked and often preventable
About 2.6 million babies are born dead each year, a largely ignored and silently grieved loss of life, about half of which could be prevented....
Rene Le Berre, 78: Entomologist saved millions of Africans from river blindness
Rene Le Berre helped prevent many people from contracting the vicious but largely preventable condition, which mainly affects the poor.Rene Le Berre helped prevent many people from contracting the vicious but largely preventable condition, which mainly affects the poor. (International Bank For Recon...
Vitamin A program deficiency highlights primary care needs
“The great Vitamin A fiasco,” by Michael Latham in World Nutrition, the Journal of the World Public Health Nutrition Association (www.wphna.org), Volume 1, Number 1, May, 2010 In his commentary, Michael Latham addresses the evolution since the 1970s of vitamin A capsule administration in publ...
UNAIDS reports progress against HIV: New infections have fallen and more people have access to treatment, although two-thirds of those infected still...
More than 1.2 million people began taking anti- HIV therapy in 2009, a 30% increase that brings the worldwide total to 5.2 million, UNAIDS said Monday in its annual report, but that still leaves 10 million people in the developing world in need of access to the lifesaving drugs....
River blindness in Nigeria: photo essay
Some 27 million people in Nigeria need treatment for river blindness, also known as onchocerciasis, according to NGO Sight Savers. The disease is spread through the bite of a black simulium fly, which breeds in fast-flowing water. However, if at-risk people take the drug ivermectin, also known as Me...
World hunger dips, but not by much
Higher incomes in Asian countries have lowered the number of hungry in 2010, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), but economists warn that volatile wheat prices are affecting other staple grains such as maize and rice, and could lead to setbacks....
In Mali’s richest region, Sikasso, malnutrition is as high as in the country’s barren north, due in large part to concentration on cash ...
Sikasso is one of Mali's most fertile regions, but under-five malnutrition is as high here as in the country’s barren north, according to government health data.Health workers and agricultural experts explain the paradox as a combination of a lack of nutritional awareness, and the concentration on...
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