FACTS CHECK
AfriSMC was established by ScienceAfrica and Partners in September 2020 in Nairobi, Kenya, through a small grant from Cornell Alliance for Science principally to work with journalists and scientists on the continent to improve the credibility of media reporting of emerging scientific issues, such as the Coronavirus pandemic.
The first Science Media Centre (SMC) was established in the UK in 2002 after a frenzied and inaccurate media reporting on Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccinations and autism, GM crops and growing public mistrust of science.
Press Release on Noma Disease
Strides in Push to Include Noma in WHO list of Neglected Tropical Diseases
Nairobi, 3rd March...
Expert Opinion on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Prof. Patrick Ndavi, Coordinator, ACCAF, Kenya
More than 200 million girls and women alive today have...
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...
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...
GMO Misinformation Highest in Africa Media, New Study Shows
Nairobi, 25th November, 2022- A research paper released by The Alliance for Science shows that...