Staff members of Local NGO Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, on March 20, 2020.
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Models can predict the risk and spread of diseases and establish the time and place to implement optimal prevention and control mechanisms.
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More than two billion people live without reliable access to clean water.
Fluorescence microscopy of mycobacteria.
Michael A. Reiche, Timothy J. de Wet, Ryan Dinkele and Digby F. Warner
Scientists need greater understanding of the bacterium’s basic biology, as well as more about how it is spread from one individual to the next.
Kenya now suffers from serious levels of hunger.
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Since 2010 the number of Kenyans going hungry has been growing. The country now suffers from serious levels of hunger
Vendors in a market.
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Many informal workers will not be able to take the precautions that health authorities suggest.
Agave honey bee log hive honey comb harvest.
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Wild bees provide many lessons. Watching and learning from them may help keep honeybees safe and thriving.
Women are often primary caregivers in their communities.
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Women must be included at decision making levels to advise on development, designing, delivery and implementation of tools that target health issues that affect them especially malaria.
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Group B streptococcus is the most common bacterial cause of illness in newborn babies around the world.
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The book is a departure from despair and crippling homophobia. It records the experiences of people who refuse to be hopeless victims.
Most households didn’t want their future generations to become farmers.
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Understanding rural household aspirations and taking them seriously in development planning could offer great potential in shaping the future of rural spaces.
An activist poses for the camera outside Botswana High Court which ruled in favour of decriminalising homosexuality in June 2019.
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Predominant public sentiment remains largely anti-homosexual and overshadows constitutionally guaranteed rights in Africa.
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In some communities, over a quarter of the children were misclassified as iron replete whereas they were iron deficient.
Kenyan women launched the #HerLifeMatters campaign in Nairobi in 2019 against femicide.
Kariuki James
An international protocol to document and investigate sexual violence in conflict is falling short.
Kenya has seen a huge decline in the number of roan antelopes.
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Kenya can save its roan population if it re-stocks from other countries, eliminates poaching and improves their habitat.
Donkey carries water for pastoralists in Marsabit, Kenya.
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Ejiao, a traditional Chinese medicine, is what’s driving demand for donkey skins the most. It consists of gelatin that is extracted from boiled donkey hides.
A man runs through a desert locust swarm in Kitui County, Kenya.
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Changing weather modifies insect traits and can have an impact on their food, natural enemies and predators.
Students at school on Rusinga Island, Kenya.
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Overcrowding can have severe negative consequences for the education and safety of learners.
The links between people, animals and the environment call for a new approach to health.
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The interdependency between humans, animals and the environment is becoming more pronounced. This calls for an interdisciplinary approach to health problems.
Ethiopia’s economic growth hovered between 8%-11% for over 10 years but its sovereign credit rating has not been upgraded
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The alarm being raised by multilateral financial institutions about rising government debt across Africa is exaggerated. The real problem is that African governments pay way over the odds for debt.
Viral sequences related to known human coronavirus outbreaks have been identified in horsehoe bats.
Dr. Low de Vries
Understanding the many factors that may play a role in spillover of pathogens from bats to humans requires systematic surveillance of bat populations.