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Initiative for fighting COVID-19 with data launched

SciDev.netBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com22/05/2020Leave a comment

Data collection and processing will help to fight the COVID-19 in Africa, and to tackle other sustainable development issues on the long term.

British Rotarians immunize children in the streets of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, during the polio immunization campaign in Northern India in 2009. Photo Jean-Marc Giboux/RIBI Image Library - cc BY

Polio, measles outbreaks ‘inevitable’, say vaccine experts

SciDev.netBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com15/05/2020Leave a comment

Interruptions to vaccination programmes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic could result in new waves of measles or polio outbreaks, health experts warn.

Africa to gain from COVID-19 clinical R&D coalition

SciDev.netBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com08/05/2020Leave a comment

African institutions are full members of a worldwide coalition to fight COVID-19.

Satellite positioning system ESAIL / SAT-AIS testing at OHB LuxSpace- Photo: ESA - S. Corvaja

Satellites to protect the world, if data is open to all

SciDev.netBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com01/05/2020Leave a comment

It is a wonder all we can do with satellites for development.

Fazlun Khalid

“Only ecology-based economies can avoid future catastrophe”

SciDev.netBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com24/04/2020Leave a comment

In this opinion piece, Fazlun Khalid gives his view about what we should aim after the COVID-19 pandemics. Scientific research is in the programme, and not only for vaccines

An image taken from Copernicus Sentinel-2 featuring an area in the Santa Cruz Department of Bolivia, where part of the tropical dry forest has been cleared for agricultural use. Copyright: European Space Agency (CC BY-SA 2.0) This image has been cropped.

Satellites for development: facts and figures

SciDev.netBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com17/04/2020Leave a comment

Satellite technology is being increasingly seen as a tool to reduce inequalities in the crucial development decade to 2030.

Representatives from the Ngata Toro Community in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia with a sign announcing their community is locked down. ​​Indigenous communities fear the coronavirus pandemic could exacerbate their lack of medical services and food.​ Copyright: Indigenous Peoples' Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN)

Coronavirus ‘could devastate’ indigenous communities

SciDev.netBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com04/04/2020Leave a comment

Indigenous communities around the globe are closing borders in an effort to avoid a potentially devastating coronavirus outbreak in their territories.

Protective Bio-shell could extend Egg Shelf Life

SciDev.netBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com10/03/2020Leave a comment

A biofilm developed in Brazil could extend the shelf life of eggs in the world’s poorest and hottest regions, where they spoil faster and are vulnerable to germs.

Speakers at the SGCI workshop in Dakar. Image credit: SciDev.Net/Bilal Taïrou

Global South Research Challenges ‘Can be Overcome’

SciDev.netBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com03/03/2020Leave a comment

Research in the global South is frequently underfunded and overlooked, but a new initiative is boosting a range of studies, from sustainable development, to soil salinity, and care for the elderly suffering chronic diseases.

Cancer Burden could Balloon in Poorest Countries

SciDev.netBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com19/02/2020Leave a comment

Low- and middle-income countries could see an 80 per cent rise in cancer over the next 20 years if treatment and prevention services are not stepped up, according to the latest World Cancer Report. The report, compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO), warns that cancer prevention is taking a back seat in poor countries,…

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