Agriculture & Nutrition
The lives of women I have known who became infected by HIV
(Tanzania, June 2006) Tanzania has a national HIV/AIDS policy and is in the process of finalizing legislation on HIV/AIDS. The expectation is that once the policy and legal framework is set, people living with HIV/AIDS and their families will be afforded greater protection. But will a legal framewor...
Medecines sans Frontieres: Lack of nurses ‘killing Africans’
A critical shortage of doctors and nurses means people are dying unnecessarily from HIV/Aids in southern Africa, according to a report. In some areas, drugs are available but there is nobody to administer them, the Medecins sans Frontieres report says....
Readout from a UN debate on how to end hunger
By Tom Marchione (May 15, 2007) The theme of “working together” dominated this year’s session of the Standing Committee on Nutrition, held in Rome in early March of 2007 at the headquarters of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). The session was jointly sponsored by FAO, UNICEF,...
Sahel: strategic shift in battle against region’s high death toll
Every year in the Sahel region of West Africa, hundreds of thousands of children die, and malnutrition means millions of others will live on with permanent mental disability and physical stunting....
Mosquito nets cut birth problems from malaria
Pregnant women in Africa can reduce their risk of miscarriage or still birth by up to a third by sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets. The UK scientific research is likely to bolster calls for treated mosquito nets to be made more widely available to pregnant women and children in Africa....
East Africa: TB control programs inadequate – WHO
Several countries in eastern Africa have a high incidence of tuberculosis but have yet to develop effective national strategies to curtail the disease, the United Nations World Health Organization said in its 2007 global TB report, ‘Global tuberculosis control - surveillance, planning, financing...
Speeding HIV’s deadly spread: multiple, concurrent partners drive disease in Southern Africa
FRANCISTOWN, Botswana -- The young and hip at ground zero of the AIDS epidemic meet, drink and pair off under the knowing gaze of bartender Brian Khumalo. Sometimes they first buy a three-pack of condoms from the box he keeps by the liquor, sometimes not....
Giving babies nutritious food could significantly increase their earning power as adults, new research suggests
Giving babies nutritious food could significantly increase their earning power as adults, new research suggests.The findings, published in the British medical journal The Lancet, were based on a three-decade study of Guatemalan males from birth....
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