Explainer on how a virus becomes a variant and whether it is necessarily a...
Prof. Walter Jaoko
Professor of medical microbiology and tropical medicine, Director KAVI Institute of Clinical Research, University of Nairobi
It is important for us to remember...
PRESS RELEASE:Severity of COVID-19 in Rheumatic Disease Patients Linked to Older Age, Comorbidities
Kisumu, Kenya, 1st July, 2021- COVID-19 is not milder or more severe in patients with rheumatic diseases than the general population, expert says.
Dr Charles...
Explainer on misuse of pesticides in Kenya.
Dr. Timothy Njagi Njeru, Ph.D, Development Economist and Research Fellow ,Tegemeo Institute
 "I want to say that we acknowledge that we have instances of misuse...
Press Release:Low Uptake, Lack of Diversity among Challenges Ailing the African Seed Industry
Nairobi, 1 October 2021- Though improved seeds can deliver state of the art technology to farmers: higher yields, diseases and pest resistance, climate change...
Expert opinion on Role of Agri-Biotechnology in Mitigating Climate change
Expert opinion on Role of Agri-Biotechnology in Mitigating Climate change
Expert : Joel .W. Ochieng, PhD
Programme Leader, Agricultural Biotechnology & Wildlife, the University of Nairobi
With...
Expert Reactions to Drugs for Neglected Diseases and Impacts of Covid-19 Pandemic
Dr Monique Wasunna, the Director Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) Africa, said:
“There are over one billion people affected by Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)...
Expert Opinion on Carbon credits
By Dr Olufunso Somorin, Regional Principal Officer for Climate Change and Green Growth, at the African Development Bank
Carbon credit has been fronted as an...
Press Release:Survey shows rise in vaccine hesitancy in Ghana
Accra, July 23, 2021: Research led by the University of Southampton into the uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine in Ghana, West Africa has concluded...
Expert Reaction to Covid-19 Case Management and Vaccine Roll-Out: The Hits and Misses in...
Dr Menelas Nkeshimana, Head of Department of Accident and Emergency at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Kigali, said:
“Vaccinating one part of the world or...
Expert opinion on placental malaria
Dr. Barthlomew Ondigo is a Fellow at the African Academy of Sciences with growing expertise in the immunology of infectious parasitic diseases and global...