Health

Evidence-based guidelines for mental, neurological, and substance use disorders in low- and middle-income countries: Summary of WHO recommendations

Mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders are highly prevalent and are responsible for 14% of the global burden of disease expressed in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). The resources that have been provided in countries to tackle the huge burden are insufficient, inequitably distributed, and inefficiently used, which results in a large majority of people with these disorders receiving no care at all. Even when available, treatment and care often is neither evidence-based nor of high quality.

Publication Date: 
15/11/2011
Tarun Dua, Corrado Barbui, Nicolas Clark & et al
PLoS Medicine
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Mental Health, Narcotics, Alcoholism, Health Effects, WHO, Health Policy, Health Care, Global, Ethiopia, Jordan, Nigeria, Panama, Developing Countries
Sanitation

India's Sulabh gets top UN consultative status

Recognizing Sulabh International's pioneering work in developing low-cost, environmental-friendly public toilet system, the United Nations has accorded its highest consultative status to the Indian

Publication Date: 
03/11/2011
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Sulabh International, Toilets, NGO, India, South Africa, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Environment, Afghanistan, Sanitation
Health

India leads in rotavirus infection deaths: Lancet

Close to one lakh children below the age of five years died of diarrhoea attributable to rotavirus infection in 2008, accounting for 22 per cent of the total deaths reported globally, reports the l

Publication Date: 
25/10/2011
Aarti Dhar
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Diarrhoea, Diseases, Children, India, Congo, Ethiopia, Vaccination, WHO, Infant mortality, Drug Industry, Health
Food Policy

World less hungry but many still at grave risk: report

The level of hunger worldwide has dropped in recent years but 26 countries still face extremely dangerous food shortages and are threatened by rising prices, a major report said Tuesday.

Publication Date: 
12/10/2011
Haveeru Daily (Maldives)
Tags:
Food Supply, Food Security, Malnutrition, South Asia, Africa, Starvation, Angola, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Swaziland, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Biofuel, Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, Food Prices, Climate Adaptation
Climate Change

Bangladesh among 5 most vulnerable nations: report

Bangladesh is among five most vulnerable countries to climate change-induced food crisis and hunger, says a report.

Publication Date: 
11/10/2011
New Age (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Bangladesh, Climate Change, Burundi, India, South Africa, Haiti, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Malnutrition, Food Prices, Brazil, Tanzania, Agriculture, Biofuel, Poverty, Food Security
Food Policy

UN says food prices to remain high

Food commodity prices are likely to stay high and volatile during the next few years because of rising demand, more frequent extreme weather and the biofuel industry, according to a report from the

Publication Date: 
11/10/2011
Financial Times (London)
Tags:
Food Prices, Developing Countries, Asia, Biofuel, Power Industry, FAO, Agriculture, World Food Programme (WFP), Africa, Economic Development, European Union (EU), United States Of America (US), Food Crops, Wheat, Maize, India, Russia, China, Argentina, Ethiopia, Food Aid
Dams/ Irrigation

Egypt, Ethiopia To Review Impact Of Mega Dam

Egypt and Ethiopia have agreed to set up a technical team to review the impact of a $4.8-billion Nile river dam which Addis Ababa announced in March, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said in C

Publication Date: 
19/09/2011
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Egypt, Ethiopia, Dams, Nile, Rivers, Water Resources, Benefit Sharing, Hydroelectricity, Water Disputes, Sudan
Natural Disasters

Famine Ravages Somalia in a World Less Likely to Intervene

Is the world about to watch 750,000 Somalis starve to death? The United Nations’ warnings could not be clearer.

Publication Date: 
16/09/2011
Jeffrey Gettleman
New York Times (New York)
Tags:
Somalia, Famine, Natural Disasters, Drought, Health, Malaria, Cholera, Typhoid, Children, Starvation, Kenya, Ethiopia, Food Aid
Climate Change

Some like it hot: The influence and implications of climate change on coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei) and coffee production in East Africa

The negative effects of climate change are already evident for many of the 25 million coffee farmers across the tropics and the 90 billion dollar (US) coffee industry. The coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei), the most important pest of coffee worldwide, has already benefited from the temperature rise in East Africa: increased damage to coffee crops and expansion in its distribution range have been reported. In order to anticipate threats and prioritize management actions for H. hampei we present here, maps on future distributions of H. hampei in coffee producing areas of East Africa.

Publication Date: 
14/09/2011
Juliana Jaramillo, Eric Muchugu, Fernando E. Vega & et al
PLoS ONE
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Climate Change, Agriculture, Climate Impacts, Coffee, Global Warming, Plant Diseases, Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi
Dams/ Irrigation

Ethiopia Says Plans To Build More Nile Dams

Ethiopia has announced plans to construct two dams along its share of the Nile, six months after embarking on a 5,250 MW power plant that rankled Egypt over concerns it might affect the flow of the

Publication Date: 
12/09/2011
Aaron Maasho
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Ethiopia, Dams, Egypt, Nile, Hydroelectricity, Renewable Energy, Sudan, Yemen, Kenya

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