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AFGHANISTAN: Food insecurity may cause deaths this winter - government

KABUL Thursday, November 27, 2008 (IRIN) - More than 1.6 million under-five children and hundreds of thousands of vulnerable women are exposed to acute malnutrition and some could die this winter due to food insecurity and lack of medical care, the government has warned. "Around 1.6 million children under five and 625,000 child-bearing-age women are at risk of dying this winter due to malnutrition," the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said in a statement (in English) on 25 November....

PAKISTAN: Dengue fever hits Punjab Province

LAHORE Tuesday, November 18, 2008 (IRIN) - The chief minister of Punjab has stepped in to try to halt the spread of a dengue virus epidemic which has seen 799 confirmed cases and two deaths in the province.The epidemic appears to be concentrated in Lahore, with 754 cases confirmed. The first death was reported in Rawalpindi late last month and the second a few days later in Lahore.Zia-ur-Rehman, the focal person for dengue, told the Pakistani media that Ghulam Murtaza, brought in from...

INDONESIA: Handwashing with soap saves lives

JAKARTA Sunday, October 12, 2008 (IRIN) - Many of the deaths caused by diarrhoea and respiratory infections in Indonesia could have been prevented had people washed their hands more often with soap, the Health Ministry has said. According to the World Health Organization, of the 161,000 children that died in Indonesia in 2006, 18 percent died from diarrhoea and 14 percent from pneumonia. The Health Ministry cited US Agency for International Development (USAID) figures showing that only 14...

Massive decline in malaria cases in ‘Gambia sets model for Africa’

Incidence of malaria in Gambia is reported to have plunged drastically thanks to an array of low-cost strategies, offering the tempting vision of eliminating this disease in parts of Africa. This is according to a study published, on Friday October 31, on the prestigious science journal, The Lancet. "At four key monitoring sites in the small West African state," the report reads, "the number of malarial cases fell by between 50 percent and 82 percent between 2003 and 2007, its authors found."...

Malaria: a disease without borders

The Gambia will on Friday April 25th, join the international community to observe World Malaria Day, schedule to take place in Bakadaji in the Upper River Region. This years theme is “malaria a disease without borders’ with an  accompanying slogan, ‘unite to combat malaria’. It is estimated that an African child dies of malaria every 30 seconds. Speaking at a press briefing on Monday at the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) conference hall ahead of the celebrations, Mrs Adam Jagne...

Critical health care fails to reach most women and children in high mortality countries despite gains in fighting child killer diseases

World’s health leaders andparliamentarians convene to address accelerated action to reduce maternal andchild deathsLeading global health experts, policy-makers andparliamentarians are convening in Cape Town today to address the urgent need for acceleratedprogress to reduce maternal, newborn and child deaths, ifinternationally-agreed targets are to be met. According to the 2008 report Tracking Progress in Maternal, Newborn Skilled care at birth: Only around half of women and newborns...

2 killed, 4 injured

Following the sudden deaths of two people, namely, Anti Bobb and Jim Jobe, with four people injured in a serious car accident along the Coastal Highway, between Kairaba Traffic Lights and Kotu BB Junction in KMC on December 10th 2007, one Abdoulie Ndour, a truck driver, was yesterday charged at the Bundung Magistrates’ Court, presided over by Senior Magistrate Kumba Sillah-Camara in connection to the deaths and injuries. The four injured were Yusuf O Azeez, Rockey Jeng, Ousman Boye and...

Serrekundanding Lorry Driver faces 12 charges

The driver of a Pegasso truck that ploughed into a crowd of APRC militants on January 13, killing 10 people and leaving some hospitalised, on Monday, appeared before Magistrate Ayoub John Njie of the Brikama Magistrates Court. Alhagie Badjie faces 12 charges, causing deaths, driving with defective tires, and driving without efficient brake system. However, the accused pleaded not of guilty of charges. According to the prosecution, AlhagieBadjie on 13th January, 2008, at Serrekundanding...

LIBERIA: Lassa fever prevention failing

Medical officials in a rural hospital say efforts to prevent outbreaks of Lassa fever, a hard-to treat-disease transmitted by rats, are failing because of a lack of investment in health services and public information. "There are a few health talks and jingles on the radio, but not enough awareness about Lassa fever. Prevention is important because the prognosis of the disease is not very good,” said Jefferson Sibley, a specialist in viral diseases at Phebe Hospital in Bong county, northern...

Feed people or feed cars?

Biofuel: compounding global food insecurity and climate change Biofuel is widely tipped to be the viable alternative to fossil fuel. But any large scale commercial production of fuel crops to meet increasing global energy demand could have far-reaching repercussions for food security and the environment. A recent UN report warns that food security, local communities and biodiversity will all be threatened if Biofuel is to be the long sought alternative to fossil fuel. The warning casts doubt...