Africa Science News

The Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention (ACCP) has presented 10 key recommendations and findings on cervical cancer screening for low-resource settings.

Strix Systems, a worldwide leader in high-performance wireless mesh networking today announced that Kenya Data Networks (KDN) has expanded its network services to six major countries in sub-Sahara Africa.

Kenya has enough stock of condoms to last 2012, the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (Kemsa) says.

Political will, more than genetically modified technology, is now needed to move available scientific and technological options to African farmers' field, Dr. Papa Abdoulaye Seck, Director General, Africa Rice Center (WARDA) has said.

Marking animals to know who their owners are is a very ancient practice. Traditional livestock marking systems have existed since time immemorial.

Ugandan scientists have started screening crocodiles, monitor-lizards, snakes and other reptiles to establish whether they are reservoirs for sleeping sickness and nagana disease parasites countrywide.

The total Tanzania Government’s spending on HIV/AIDS in 2007-08 combined with donor support is expected to equal over 10% of public expenditure, over 3% of GDP, and a staggering one third of all aid into the country, a government report shows.

Malaria vectors in Africa's cities appear to have adapted to high coverage with insecticide treated bed nets and improved housing--- by predominantly feeding outdoors and have thus, reduced effectiveness of the much-touted insecticide-treated nets compared to rural areas, a Dar es Salaam , Tanzania study published in the malaria journal of January shows.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) have agreed to work together to slash the CO2 emissions caused by members of the postal sector.

Kenya’s public health ministry has today launched communication campaigns targeted to strengthen the capacity of health workers to act as champions towards enhancing adherence to treatment by patients and encouraging new ones seek treatment.

The International Institute for Environment and Development has launched a web-based publication that describes how to rethink food production and distribution for environmental and social gain.

Every one in three Kenyans suffers from Asthma, but the figures are higher in children, a research has revealed.

The WHO negotiations on public health, intellectual property and innovation ended last Saturday with substantial progress toward consensus on a draft strategy but the most contentious articles in the strategy still under brackets - indicating lack of agreement.

The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), in partnership with Equity Bank Limited, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Kenya Ministry of Agriculture has today signed an agreement for a loan facility of US$50 million (3 billion Kenyan shillings) to accelerate access to affordable financing for 2.5 million farmers and 15,000 agricultural value chain members for a pilot period of three years.

Worried about the fading interest in traditional foods, the Ministry of National Heritage and Culture is partnering with a local restaurant in a two-day festival designed to popularize the Kenya’s cultural foods among urban dwellers.

The problem of the mixed waste, uncollected waste, unsafe waste disposal methods and failure to enforce environmental legislations remain a serious problem in Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi.

Delegates to the Tokyo International Conference on African Development, which is set to open on May 28, are to fast track solutions to energy and environmental crisis in Africa.

The National Systems of innovation in developing countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa lack cohesion and are thus not able to contribute effectively to wealth creation.

Trials of HIV prevention strategies in developing countries face multiple obstacles including political pressures, say scientists.