MALNUTRITION, MALARIA and the MYCOBACTERIUM

"Sesame Street," once a mainstay for a generation of Nigerian children who watched the U.S. show on the state-run TV network, will...

Indoor residual spraying for preventing malariaSpraying houses with insecticides (indoor residual spraying; IRS) to kill mosquitoes is one o...

A combined international operation across East Africa targeting counterfeit medical products and pharmaceutical crimes has resulted in the s...

Mun-Keat Looi Not many people like mosquitoes. For the ‘lucky’ ones, they are just pesky insects that surreptitiously suck your blood, leavi...

Two companies say they have decoded the genome of rice, one of the most important of all food crops. The information derived from rice will ...

UK scientists have released draft sequences of the wheat genome, which they think could make a vital contribution to securing global food su...

9 August 2010 About 600,000 children die yearly from malnutrition which is said to be one of the results of failure to breastfeed the child ...

Droughts, flooding and rising food prices have left millions of people in Niger facing food shortages and this year's harvest is still m...

SHIKARPUR, Pakistan — The water came in the morning, quietly sweeping across the rice paddies and into the village. Within hours, it was as ...

The number of Taiwanese households living in poverty rose to a record high of 108,000 in the three months to June despite the continued grow...

24 August 2010 (IRIN) - Albinio Matias, a Mozambican farmer, lost his daughter, Cassula, and his home to wildfires, which also damaged his ...

24 August 2010. The Wellcome Trust Vietnam Major Overseas Programme is a flourishing clinical research unit embedded in the Hospital of Trop...

DAKAR, 24 August 2010 (IRIN) - In parts of Chad acute malnutrition levels far exceed the international emergency threshold, according to a ...

Malawi received £77.3 billion of aid from the UK in 2009. During the same year the president Mutharika spent 9 million on a private jet, £2...

MSF video on clean water for Swat Valley in Pakistan floods http://povertynewsblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Medecins%20Sans%20Frontieres

BANGKOK, 24 August 2010 (IRIN) - Experts warn that a significant increase in the numbers of brown hoppers, a rice pest, in central Thailand...

24 August 2010 (IRIN) - Two million Somalis, an estimated 27 percent of the total population, still need emergency and livelihood assistance...

25 August 2010 (IRIN) - Health officials in Bangladesh are downplaying a recent outbreak of anthrax [http://www.who.int/csr/disease/Anthrax/...

22 August 2010 Background Malaria is almost invariably ranked as the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Africa. There is growing ev...

Review of "A realistic strategy for fighting malaria in Africa" by William Jobin Parasites & Vectors 2010, 3:68 doi:10.1186/17...