Boost Health Spending to Save Children from Malnutrition, The Goalkeepers Report 2024 Urges Leaders
New modeling shows that 40 million more children will suffer from hunger’s worst effects by 2050 due to climate change, but immediate action could...
Dr. Paulin Basinga on Causes, Solutions to Malnutrition in Africa
Dr. Paulin Basinga on Causes, Solutions to Malnutrition in Africa
The Gates Foundation’s eighth annual Goalkeepers report, which reveals new insights into the world’s worst...
No Link Between Mobile Phones and Brain Cancers, Experts Find
By Sharon Atieno
Despite increased uptake and exposure to the use of mobile phones and other wireless technology which emit radiofrequencies (RF), there is no...
Explainer: Bats,diseases and role in ecosystem
Despite being associated with numerous diseases including COVID-19, bats play a crucial role in the ecosystem health, human health and agriculture. Bernard Agwanda, research...
Expert Opinion on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Prof. Patrick Ndavi, Coordinator, ACCAF, Kenya
More than 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), a harmful practice that...
Expert Opinion on Sleeping Sickness and Updates on Treatment
Dr. Wilfred Kalonji, Head of Clinical Operations, DNDI
What is sleeping sickness and how does it affect people?
Sleeping sickness is also known as Human African...
Launch of a Research Paper on Media misinformation about GMOs in Africa
Mark Lynus, Climate and research lead at the Alliance for science and Lead author of Misinformation in the media global coverage of GMO’s 2019...
Expert Opinion on prioritizing loss and damages at COP 27
With the twenty-seventh United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP) set to be held in Egypt, African experts have...
Expert opinion on climate finance being a top agenda at COP 27
With the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) set to be held in Egypt at a time when various parts of the world are...
Expert reaction to study looking at integrating human stem cell-derived brain-like tissue in the...
Abstract :
Stroke is the second leading cause of death and main cause of disability worldwide, but with few effective therapies. Although stem cell-based therapy...