Agriculture & Nutrition
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, financingâ€...
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....
Global vaccination campaign cuts measles deaths
Child deaths from measles have fallen by 60% following a massive global vaccination campaign. A study in The Lancet confirms that hundreds of thousands of lives have been saved since 1999, surpassing a target of halving deaths by 2005....
3.5 million children die every year because of lack of food or poor quality food
A third of child deaths globally are caused by poor nutrition, experts warn. Around 3.5 million children die every year because of lack of food or poor quality food, a problem which starts in the womb, studies show....
Prime Minister Singh calls large Indian nutrition program a failure–says program has been poorly implemented
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