Agriculture & Nutrition
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 public ...
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...
Campaign to eradicate guinea worm in hard-hit Nigeria may have worked
After 20 years, the Carter Center is ready to declare a major victory in its war on guinea worm: Nigeria, once the worst-afflicted country in the world, appears to be free of the worms....
Population explosion to stop Africa’s attempt to attain MDGs
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Africa population tops one billion
The number of people in Africa has passed the one billion mark, the UN Population Fund says in a report....
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