World AMR Awareness Week 2024
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a pressing global health and socioeconomic crisis. It has significant impacts on human and animal health, food production and the environment.
https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-amr-awareness-week/2024
Why your Vitamin D levels may be low despite sun exposure
https://nation.africa/kenya/health/why-your-vitamin-d-levels-may-be-low-despite-sun-exposure-4827314
Urgent action needed as global diabetes cases increase four-fold over past decades
The study reports that global diabetes prevalence in adults rose from 7% to 14% between 1990 and 2022. LMICs experienced the largest increases, where diabetes rates have soared while treatment access remains persistently low.
Why HIV-Aids is killing more men than women
More than 1.38 million people are living with HIV in Kenya, with men accounting for 35 per cent.
https://nation.africa/kenya/health/why-hiv-aids-is-killing-more-men-than-women–4826672#story
When physical symptoms point to a mental health problem
Our training curriculums are teaching mental health and psychiatry, but the practice is not entrenching triggers in practice that continuously remind primary care physicians and other specialists to maintain a high index of suspicion , a move that can increase chances of diagnosis.
Measles cases surge worldwide, infecting 10.3 million people in 2023
Worldwide, there were an estimated 10.3 million cases of measles in 2023, a 20% increase from 2022, according to new estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Inadequate immunization coverage globally is driving the surge in cases.
WHO and partners rally cervical cancer elimination efforts
Four years ago to the day, 194 countries resolved to eliminate cervical cancer and WHO launched a global strategy. Since then, significant progress has been made.
https://www.who.int/news/item/17-11-2024-who-and-partners-rally-cervical-cancer-elimination-efforts
Six-in-one vaccine vital to guard against 100-day cough
Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a preventable disease, yet it still kills more than 150,000 children under five every year – most of them in low- and middle-income countries.
https://www.independent.co.ug/six-in-one-vaccine-vital-to-guard-against-100-day-cough/
Uganda strives for a mercury-free health sector
Uganda is actively working towards a mercury-free healthcare sector, an important step in safeguarding public health and environmental sustainability.
https://www.independent.co.ug/uganda-strives-for-a-mercury-free-health-sector/
Vaccine for foot and mouth disease a win for East Africa
A new vaccine, designed to protect East African cattle against all major strains of foot and mouth disease, is offering hope to small-scale farmers battling the highly contagious disease.
https://www.scidev.net/global/news/vaccine-for-foot-and-mouth-disease-win-for-east-africa/
What Trump’s win means for global development research
Concerns for what a second Trump presidency could mean for global science and development were fueled last week, after it emerged Trump could appoint Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into key positions in government.
https://www.scidev.net/global/news/what-trump-win-means-for-global-development-research/
