Life expectancy rises 'grinding to halt' in England
Rising rates of life expectancy are grinding to a halt in England after more than 100 years of continuous progress, says a leading health expert. University College London expert Sir Michael Marmot
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Fast-forward progress: leveraging tech to achieve the global goals
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) now form the backbone of today's economies – providing individuals with access to such vitally important resources as employment opportunities, online
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Large-scale physical activity data reveal worldwide activity inequality
To be able to curb the global pandemic of physical inactivity and the associated 5.3 million deaths per year, we need to understand the basic principles that govern physical activity. However, there is
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Drought in Kenya drives girls as young as 12 to have sex for money
Girls as young as 12 are being forced into having sex for money to feed their families in drought-hit parts of Kenya. Families in rural areas of Turkana, one of the regions hardest hit by late rains,
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Nigeria Slow Eliminating HIV As Women Contribute 90 Percent New Infections in Children
Nigeria introduced efforts towards preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, several years ago, but despite significant progress in reducing new HIV infections among children, the country is not
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Economic development in Africa report 2017: tourism for transformative and inclusive growth
Tourism – in terms of its contribution to gross domestic product, employment and trade – is an important sector in many African economies, and its growth is increasingly driven by tourists originating
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Nigeria: Ebonyi Budgets N1.8 Billion for Primary Health Care
Abakaliki — The Ebonyi State government at the weekend said that under the first round of 2017 Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Week, (MNCHW), 124, 900 children would be immunized against the polio virus,
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1.7m Nigeria women, 380,000 children living with HIV’
No fewer than 1.7million women and 380,00 children under age 15, are currently living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria according to the 2015 data by the National AIDS & STIs Control Program (NASCP) of the Federal
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Gender, climate change, and resilient food systems: lessons from strategic adaptation by smallholder farmers in Cameroon
Climate change has major impacts on the food security and livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Africa south of the Sahara. Vulnerable to the vagaries of weather and to being chronically poor, women farmers
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Climate adaptation efforts must start with listening- experts
When Gabriel Kulwaum was talking about climate change issues to a group of fishermen in Papua New Guinea, he was met with an unexpected response. "One old man at the back of the room stood up and asked