Health

Child and adolescent health from 1990 to 2015

This study found significant global decreases in all-cause child and adolescent mortality from 1990 to 2015, but with increasing global inequality. In countries with a low Socio-demographic Index (SDI), mortality is the primary driver of health loss in children and adolescents, largely owing to infectious, nutritional, maternal, and neonatal causes, while nonfatal health loss prevails in locations with a higher SDI.

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Publication Date: 
03/04/2017
Jama Pediatrics
1-20
Tags:
Infant mortality, Child Health, South Asia, Africa, India, Maternal Health, Non Communicable Diseases, Statistics, Anaemia, Diarrhoea, Waterborne diseases, Malnutrition, Malaria, Traffic Accidents
Science And Technology

Students develop technology to boost rice production

The students are from a range of engineering subjects as well as agribusiness, and ICT courses

Publication Date: 
03/04/2017
Ghana Web (Ghana)
Tags:
Agriculture, Science And Technology, Ghana, Agricultural Research, Africa
Health

Dar smells prostate cancer cure

TANZANIA is likely to be the first country in the world to discover the ultimate cure for Prostate Cancer.

Publication Date: 
03/04/2017
Daily News (Tanzania)
Tags:
Health, Cancer, Tanzania, Diseases, Medical Research, Africa
Health

More children suffer from malnutrition, disease in Somalia: UN

UNITED NATIONS, (Xinhua) -- As a possible famine looms, an increasing number of children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, cholera or acute watery diarrhea in Somalia, the UN Children’s

Publication Date: 
03/04/2017
Coast Week (Kenya)
Tags:
Health, Malnutrition, Diseases, Somalia, Drought, Child Health, Children, Africa
Natural Disasters

China donate U.S. one million dollars to Zimbabwean flood victims

HARARE Zimbabwe (Xinhua) -- China on Friday handed over 1.06 million U.S.

Publication Date: 
03/04/2017
Coast Week (Kenya)
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Floods, Flood Relief, Zimbabwe, China, Africa, Disaster Management
Economy

Kenyan GDP rate to remain flat in 2017 amid worsening drought

NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- The Kenyan economy is projected to grow at 5.9 per cent in 2017, the same rate of growth achieved in 2016 but might fall slightly further down due to a slowdown in economic acti

Publication Date: 
03/04/2017
Coast Week (Kenya)
Tags:
Economy, Natural Disasters, Droughts, Kenya, GDP, Africa
Hazardous Waste

Nigeria faces growing e-waste problem

In Nigeria, an entire industry thrives on the demand for imported second-hand electronic goods.

Publication Date: 
03/04/2017
Al Jazeera
Tags:
Hazardous Waste, Electronic Waste, Nigeria, Waste Management, Africa
Natural Disasters

Krugersdorp has ‘strong’ earth tremor

An earth tremor measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale occurred early on Monday in Krugersdorp on the West Rand of Gauteng.

Publication Date: 
03/04/2017
Business Day (South Africa)
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, South Africa, Africa
Water Pollution

A novel method of sensitivity analysis testing by applying drastic method and fuzzy optimization method to assess groundwater vulnerability to pollution, case of Senegal River basin in Mali

Vulnerability to groundwater pollution from Senegal basin was studied by two different but complementary methods: the DRASTIC method (which evaluates the intrinsic vulnerability) and the fuzzy method (which assesses the specific vulnerability taking into account continuity of the parameters). The validation of this application has been tested by comparing the membership in groundwater and distribution of different classes of vulnerabilities established as well as the nitrate distribution in the study area.

Publication Date: 
03/04/2017
Keita Souleymane, Tang Zhonghua
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
1-37
Tags:
River Basin, Groundwater Pollution, Mali, Africa, Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Natural Disasters

Severe drought in Somalia endangers 300,000 hungry children

The worsening drought in Somalia has put the lives of 300,000 children at risk of death and starvation as the country confronts one of its worst droughts since 2011, a global aid agency said on Fri

Publication Date: 
02/04/2017
Coast Week (Kenya)
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Droughts, Food Security, Famine, Somalia, Children, Africa, Starvation

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