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How High-Tech Maps Could Help Urban Slums Plan Better Streets

Tue, 2016-04-05 09:15 — davidmc

In slums, buildings are often so densely packed that many are cut off from streets and pathways. This creates a literal roadblock to much-needed public resources.

“In South Africa, governments will often say that informal settlements are too dense to install adequate services,” Charlton Ziervogel, deputy director at theCommunities Organization Resource Centre, a Cape Town-based slum advocacy and support NGO, tells CityLab. “So you’ll find municipalities that install toilets, but only at the edge of a settlement, because they perceive that there is no space inside.”

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World Health Organization launches Zika app for healthcare workers

Tue, 2016-04-05 09:08 — davidmc

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new app this month, called WHO Zika App, which offers medical reference information about the Zika virus. The app is specifically designed for health care workers and responders, but can also be used by the general public.

Zika is a disease that is transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. Symptoms of this virus include mild fever, skin rashes, conjunctivitis, muscle and joint pain, and a headache, according to WHO, but the disease also comes with a complication. Researchers have found an increasing body of evidence linking Zika virus and microcephaly, a condition in which a baby is born with a significantly smaller head than expected.

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Uganda: Experts Probe Suspected Ebola Outbreak

Tue, 2016-04-05 08:54 — davidmc

Masaka — Health experts have opened investigations into the death of four people suspected to have succumbed to the contagious Ebola -like symptoms in Masaka District.

The first suspicious death was reported late last month from Kasaka parish in Buwunga Sub-county, after one person identified as Wilberforce Ssenkubuge died upon showing strange signs related to the deadly haemorrhagic fever- Ebola.

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Dakota Life: On the front lines of the Ebola outbreak

Fri, 2016-04-01 15:35 — davidmc

A South Dakota man traveled to the nation of Guinea in west Africa to fight ebola.

Lon Kightlinger, the state epidemiologist with the South Dakota Department of Health, went to Africa in November and December of 2015 — the tail end of the Ebola epidemic. He was chosen in part because he could speak French, the dominant language in the area.

Ebola has been known since the 1970s, when it emerged in the Congo. It was originally a bat virus but spread to humans.

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Humanitarian Gesture For Ebola Survivors Takes Political Trend

Fri, 2016-04-01 15:29 — davidmc

Monrovia - What was, at the beginning, intended as a humanitarian gesture from Rev. Trevor Cockings of “His Church” in the UK, for survivors of the Ebola Virus Disease through the office of vice President Joseph Boakai, has become political with National Legislature Movement for the Election of Boakai (NALEMBO) using it to score political capital among staff at the Legislature.

Three containers containing 17,010 cases of couscous while the other three contained 5,139 cases of tuna fish were made available by His Church, a UK based church, for survivors of Ebola and school going children.

On Thursday March 30, 2016, a memo was posted on the walls of the Capitol and at every entrance of the building, informing all staff of the building about a planned distribution of Tuna fish from the office of Vice President Joseph Boakai.

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As Artemisinin defeats malaria… Chinese traditional medicine sets for international market

Fri, 2016-04-01 11:20 — davidmc

Chinese traditional medicines over the years had been used to heal many sicknesses across the world with particular reference to Africa and Asia from the 1960’s to date.
China’s medical cooperation in Africa started in Algeria in 1963 as a call from the Algerian government for international medical assistance and extended to other countries including Sierra Leone which benefited from the first Chinese Medical Team (CMT) in March 1973 but were withdrawn in 1993 as a result of the war and re-dispatched in December 2002.
Over the years, these CMT have been curing various sicknesses without any form of international recognition until late 2015 when the first 85 year old Chinese female scientist, Professor Tu You you, was awarded in Sweden ‘the 2015 Noble Prize in Medicine’ for her pi

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SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY DR. ERNEST BAI KOROMA ON THE OCCASION OF THE FORMAL LAUNCHING OF THE 2015 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS PROVISIONAL RESULTS ON MARCH 31ST 2016

Thu, 2016-03-31 17:58 — Mohamed S

Salutation:

Distinguished ladies and gentlemen,

From the 5th – 18th December, 2015, we carried out the officialcountingof ournation'spopulation and the compilation of economic, social and otherdata; data that would inform the formulation ofdevelopmentpoliciesand plans; data that would guide the demarcation of constituenciesforelections.

Over 16,000 field workers were deployed across the country for this exercise. A huge awareness campaign was embarked upon to engender public participation.

But Census is not just about counting our population or collecting different types of data. It is a process that also involves the analysis and evaluation of the data so collected and, of course, the publication and dissemination of the final figures and facts about the country’s demographic, social and economic realities.

We have come a long way in this journey, in providing the baseline data that will continue to serve as a reference point for our development trajectories. Today’s launch of the provisional result of the December 2015 population and housing census is a continuation of that long journey, it is part of the process of publication and dissemination.

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94 Years old American Doctor going to Sierra Leone for help to Ebola survivors

Thu, 2016-03-31 16:15 — davidmc

A 94-year-old Minnesota ophthalmologist doctor Lowell Gess who worked at a Sierra Leone clinic during the peak of the Ebola crisis last year has become an unlikely key player in West Africa’s response to a lingering symptom in patients seemingly cured of the deadly virus. And now, the 94-year-old eye doctor is heading back to Africa for a meeting of minds, as medical experts brainstorm on how to tackle the ongoing problem.

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Two Years Later, Ebola Is a Ticking Time Bomb

Thu, 2016-03-31 12:08 — davidmc

Ebola survivors could be carrying live Ebola virus in their eyes. Many of them are going blind, but in fear of the epidemic's resurgence, hardly anyone is doing anything about it.

One morning, in Atlanta, Georgia, Ebola survivor and infectious disease physician Ian Crozier walked up to his bathroom mirror to brush his teeth and did a double take. His formerly blue left eye had turned green.

He’d been experiencing strange ophthalmological symptoms for weeks, and a diagnostic test revealed the culprit: the Ebola virus, relentlessly stalking him. Though undetectable in his blood, the virus had been squatting for months in the anterior chamber of the eye, replicating without spurring an immune response. Now, Crozier was losing his vision.

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