Zambian study points to why some mothers don’t carry on taking HIV drugs: Many factors influence how consistently women take their HIV medicine. GettyImages There are more than 85,000 children living with HIV in Zambia. The primary source of infection is from mother to child during pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is an …
Cash transfers can help refugees, but they also carry risks. Insights from Kenya: Cash transfers allow refugees to buy goods from shops in the settlement Photo by Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Humanitarian organisations – such as the World Food Programme (WFP) – are increasingly using cash transfers as a way of assisting vulnerable …
Pandemic underscores burden women carry doing paid and unpaid reproductive labour: Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images Debates about women’s unpaid reproductive labour have been going on since the first woman received cash for her services. Reproductive labour includes cooking, cleaning, and caring for the elderly, the sick and children. It’s important to …
South Africa in the news: Small children carry high amounts of coronavirus; safely opening colleges will be a challenge: Children younger than five carried major amounts of coronavirus in their upper respiratory tract raising new questions about whether kids can infect others.: “South Africa” – BingNews Coronavirus – South Africa: Total number of COVID-19 cases …
Most people carry remnants of a chemical pollutant – ultrasound technology can help clean it up: Pimen/Shutterstock There’s a type of synthetic chemical which has been so widely used over the last 70 years that its remnants can be found in 99% of humans. Even low level exposure to this pollutant is known to increase …
Controlling COVID-19 will carry devastating economic cost for developing countries: A deserted street in Cairo after coronavirus-related restrictions were tightened. Egypt has been one of the hardest hit in Africa. Photo by Mohamed Elraai/picture alliance via Getty Images Many African countries quickly closed their borders and imposed lockdown. This meant that, until the beginning of …
Iran attack: how Reaper drones really carry out airstrikes: Kit Leong/Shutterstock The recent killing of senior Iranian general Qassem Soleimani has been widely reported as conducted by an MQ-9 Reaper drone. But what does such an operation actually involve? While the ultimate decision to carry out the attack has clearly been placed with the Trump …
South Africa in the news: South African miners say free carry will kill new projects: (Bloomberg) — The biggest threat posed by South Africa’s new Mining Charter may be to mines that haven’t been dug yet. The draft rules, published Friday by Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe, lay out several requirements for new mining rights …
South Africa in the news: South Africa:Six Ways to Keep Calm and Carry On in #Listeriosis Scare: The head of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases’ listeria investigation, Juno Thomas, tells us which foods to bin and how. At midnight on 4 March, scientists at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases &lpar …: “South Africa” …
South Africa in the news: Enea Evaluates the Possibility to Carry out a Directed Share Issue: NOT FOR PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION OR RELEASE, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AFRICA, JAPAN, HONG KONG, SWITZERLAND, SINGAPORE OR NEW ZEALAND OR ANY JURISDICTION IN WHICH THE PUBLICATION …: “South Africa” …
Men carry wives through obstacle course for cash, beer: Carrying your wife over the threshold of an obstacle course featuring log hurdles, sand traps and water hazards could mean beer and cash prizes. Thousands of spectators are expected to be on hand Saturday for the 17th annual North American Wife Carrying Championship in Newry, Maine. …
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