Category: Science

According to the study findings, public acceptance of the current government’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign introduced in mid-2021 was also complicated by denial of the pandemic adopted by the previous administration under the late John Magufuli.

The new estimates show limited variation in the prevalence of infertility between regions, indicating that this is a major health challenge globally. Lifetime prevalence was 17.8 percent in high-income countries and 16.5 percent in low- and middle-income countries.

“This serious shortage of health workers in Africa is undermining access to and provision of health services”, says the agency.

To hit this milestone, Africa’s annual pace of TB reduction should reach 10 percent, but this currently stands four percent. Though this twice the global pace, the WHO says this must be pushed to 10 percent per year by 2025 and accelerated to 17 percent...

At a regional workshop on sustainable management for e-waste, stakeholders in the information communication and technology (ICT) sector heard that there are insufficient facilities to ensure safe disposal of obsolete electronic gadgets, making them a serious environmental concern.

The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative (FFNPTI) seeks to drive international cooperation to end new development of fossil fuels among other policies such as retiring existing fossil fuel infrastructure and cancelling new projects. It was introduced by small islands including Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Tonga, Fiji, Niue...

The region’s countries, once aggressive buyers of the vaccines as the rich West hoarded them for their populations, are now stuck with stockpiles of doses they cannot dispense because of the anti-vax sentiment and lack of support for the inoculation programmes.

Although, some African states have invested in research and development of vaccines and medicines, they have ended up relinquishing or selling IP rights to foreign firms, setting the vaccine manufacturing efforts back.

Malaria has been on the rise, with Africa hardest hit. The latest World Malaria Report indicates that four African countries accounted for half of malaria deaths worldwide in 2021.

When the UK last June announced a near-total ban on the trade in elephant ivory, an animal welfare charity studied what happened in three widely used online marketplaces.