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IYBSSD2022: how a scientific year was born

General news, IYBSSD 2022By Abdulsalam Mahmud20/02/2022Leave a comment

Supported by numerous unions and scientific organizations, Abdulsalam MAHMUD reports that the idea to tag 2022 as ‘International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development’, was mooted in 2017.

A nurse checks the temperature of a patient at Redemption Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia. Copyright: Dominic Chavez/World Bank, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

COVID healthcare costs push billions into ‘extreme poverty’

SciDev.netBy Abdulsalam Mahmud24/01/2022Leave a comment

Progress towards Universal Health Coverage was recorded in the last two decades. But ‘throat-slicing’ healthcare costs due to COVID-19 has not only retarded the UHC feat, but aggravated poverty, globally.

Des équipents de protection contre le COVID-19 inadaptés aux femmes

Medical PPE ‘unfit’ for women on COVID-19 frontlines–REPORT

SciDev.netBy Abdulsalam Mahmud17/01/2022Leave a comment

Designed to fortify all gender of health workers, personal protective equipment, PPE, have often failed to protect women, who are leading the frontlines in the COVID fight, reports Laura Owings.

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‘IYBSSD2022 will improve links between basic sciences and 17 SDGs’

IYBSSD 2022, SKAOBy Abdulsalam Mahmud15/01/2022Leave a comment

The ‘International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development’ provides an opportunity to improve the links between basic sciences and the 17 SDGs, according to SKA Observatory.

African scientists decry COVID-19-induced travel restrictions targeting only countries in Africa. Copyright: Molefi Moleli/GovernmentZA, CC BY-ND 2.0

Omicron-induced travel ban unscientific, aggravates poverty

SciDev.netBy Abdulsalam Mahmud27/12/2021Leave a comment

Aside been unscientific, the COVID-19-induced travel ban aimed at limiting the spread of the Omicron variant could aggravate poverty in African countries, scientists have argued.

One out of every three women affected by malnutrition Credit: Tania Dimas / Pixabay

‘Over 40 percent of all adults now overweight’

SciDev.netBy Abdulsalam Mahmud20/12/2021Leave a comment

plus With COVID-19 stalling the fight against obesity, over 40% of world adults are now obese, says the 2021 Global Nutrition Report (GNR).

Coronavirus-2 Credit: WHO

Collaboration and innovation to fight COVID-19: Malaysia’s strategies

INGSA, ISCBy Abdulsalam Mahmud17/11/2021Leave a comment

This opinion article by Dr Ir Siti Hamisah Tapsir, former Secretary General, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) Malaysia, highlights the efforts of the Malaysian government in combating COVID-19.

Female journalists. Copyright: TIM DENNELL

As COVID-19 festers, science journalists now work under pressure

SciDev.netBy Abdulsalam Mahmud15/11/2021Leave a comment

The Global Science Journalism Report 2021, published by SciDev.Net, found that work has become “more intense” for science journalists around the world, amid a ravaging Coronavirus.

Students listen as a teacher gives a lecture in Bangladesh. Resuming face-to-face classes remains a topic for debate across the Asia and Pacific region, which continues to struggle with managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Copyright: Dominic Chavez/World Bank, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). This image has been cropped.

In Asia-Pacific countries, schools closed for COVID, shopping malls opened for business

SciDev.netBy Abdulsalam Mahmud08/11/2021Leave a comment

Students’ future has been halted as governments of Malaysia, Nepal and seven other Asian-Pacific nations reopen shopping malls and other businesses, but kept schools closed over COVID.

A Brazilian health professional preparing a vaccine. From Egypt to Brazil, countries have started work on their own COVID-19 vaccinations in the face of a so-called 'vaccine apartheid'. Copyright: IMF/ Raphael Alves, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

As COVAX disappoints, countries find succor in home-grown jabs

SciDev.netBy Abdulsalam Mahmud01/11/2021Leave a comment

This feature article reveals how low- and middle-income countries are turning to home-grown vaccinations against COVID-19 as the UN-backed COVAX facility fails to deliver.

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