Governments Can't Do It Alone
ips.org | 05 May 2012
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 5 (IPS) – African countries need more support from the private sector in order to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by 2015, which include important development targets like poverty reduction, and improved health and education.Governments cannot...
 South Africa | Health and Environment | Poverty Reduction

AfDB supports 2012 World Malaria Day and its theme: "Sustain Gains, Save Lives: Invest in Malaria"
African Development Bank | 24 Apr 2012
Malaria hits Africa the hardest. More than 80 percent of all malaria cases around the world each year occur in Africa, and the continent suffers more than 90 percent of the fatalities caused by the disease.Children are the most vulnerable. Of the deaths caused by malaria, 86 percent are among...
 Health and Environment

Energy Solutions: Briquettes in Uganda
Environment South Africa | 31 Jan 2012
In this report from Earth Focus, briquettes made from saw dust and agricultural waste help save forests and improve people's health. read full article
 Uganda | Health and Environment | Renewable Energy | Sustainable Forest Management

AfDB promotes improved access to water, sanitation and health services in rural and urban Uganda
African Development Bank | 18 Jan 2012
The African Development Bank and the Government of Uganda signed two separate agreements on 12 January to finance projects to improve health services delivery and access to water and sanitation in both urban and rural areas of Uganda, with a total investment of USD 155.8 million. This double deal is expected to boost the countrys efforts to meet the 2015 Millennium Development Goals for health, water and sanitation.
 Uganda | Access to Freshwater | Health and Environment | Sanitation

West African research programme to investigate Buruli ulcer
SCIDEV.NET | 10 Jan 2012
African researchers have launched a multidisciplinary programme to find out how Buruli ulcer bacteria are transmitted.The programme, agreed at a workshop of Buruli ulcer experts in Ghana last year (7–9 November), will link agriculture, the environment and health.
 Benin | Cameroon | Côte d'Ivoire | Ghana | Health and Environment

Cote d'Ivoire: Sikensi/Lutte contre le paludisme - De nombreux ménages refusent l'utilisation des mo...
fr.allafrica.com | 11 Nov 2011
Dans le département de Sikensi, nombreux sont les ménages qui refusent d'utiliser les moustiquaires imprégnées. Alors que le taux de contamination du paludisme dans le département est estimé à 114 pour mille dont 3784 cas d'enfants de 0 à 5 ans.Ces informations ont été données par Moussa...
 Côte d'Ivoire | Health and Environment

Hold Shell accountable for Niger Delta pollution and human rights abuses
AfricaFiles | 07 Nov 2011
A recent UNEP study reported on the degree of contamination in communities of Ogoniland after 50 years of oil operations. When not obvious above ground, underground reservoirs of water were severely contaminated; drinking water in one community faced 900 times the levels of benezene permitted by the World Health Organization. Clean-up could take 30 years. Let's hold those that put these commnunities and the environment at risk accountable for their actions. CJW
 Nigeria | Health and Environment | Pollution | Water Pollution

Twin Boost for TB Treatment in Swaziland
ips.org | 08 Apr 2011
The fight against tuberculosis in Swaziland will be reinforced on two fronts this month. A new tool for the quick and accurate diagnosis of TB will begin its roll out and a monthly stipend for treatment supporters will help ensure patients get through the lengthy and unpleasant course of TB drugs. Swaziland declared TB a national emergency on Mar. 24, World Tuberculosis Day. Swaziland has an estimated 11,000 TB patients, including 400 who have drug resistant strains of the disease.
 Swaziland | Health and Environment | Planning and Management of Development | Research

Experts discuss the need for health forecasts as Climate Change impacts persist
feedproxy.google.com | 07 Apr 2011
Addis Ababa, 06 April 2011 (ECA) - The second Pan-African Climate and Health workshop concluded Wednesday, April 6, in Addis Ababa as part of ongoing debates that will see Africa speaking with one voice on health at the December 2011 17th Conference of Parties (CoP 17) to take place in Durban, South Africa.
 Climate Change Adaptation | Climate Change Impacts | Environmental Awareness | Education

Kenya: Weather Outlook for the March-May 2011 'Long-Rains' Season
feedproxy.google.com | 05 Apr 2011
The October-December "Short-Rains" 2010 rainfall was highly depressed over most parts of the country except the western highlands, parts of the central Rift Valley and Nairobi area where near average rainfall was recorded. This was mainly attributed to the prevailing La Nina conditions in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific Ocean which has an influence of weather over Kenya through tele-connections. Rainfall Outlook for the 2011 "Long Rains" (March to May) Season.
 Kenya | Access to Information | Environmental Awareness | Education | and Public Participation