In aid to tackle two of the most prevalent female cancers – On Friday, 28 March, Renowned local Public Benefit Organisation (PBO), PinkDrive, announced that it will add serious muscle to the country-wide fight against cervical cancer as it unveiled South Africa’s first Mobile Women’s Health Unit in the form of a fourteen ton truck. Described as a Doctor’s Room on Wheels, the Unit boasts a state-of-the-art gynaecology area for pap smears and examinations, a reception area for administration and a radiology area. “Aligned with the local government’s millennium goals and current campaigns, such as the large-scale human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinecampaign, expanding our... Continue Reading
By: WASH R&E “Media” Network – Along the Liberia-Guinea border, where six suspected Ebola cases have occurred, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded Improved Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (IWASH) Program is delivering materials to prevent potential spread of the disease. Materials have been distributed to health facilities that are in the “front line” in responding to the Ebola outbreak in the Foya District border region, in Lofa county. The IWASH team, with staff from the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (Lofa County Health Team) and the Ministry of Public Works, visited 3 clinics and the District... Continue Reading
By: WASH R&E “Media” Network – Liberia this Saturday, March 22, 2014 joins other countries the world over to observe World Water Day. Globally, March 22nd is marked as World Water Day. Institutionalized by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992, the day is meant to increase global advocacy and create awareness on the need for fresh and clean water for better health and productivity. A release from the WASH Reporters & Editors Network of Liberia, says this year’s World Water Day is commemorated under the theme “Water and Energy”. The WASH Media Network is reminding the Liberian... Continue Reading
While Africa’s housing backlog can rightly be called a crisis, it is not an unsolvable one – according to Robert McGaffin, convener of an executive education short course at the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) on housing finance in Sub-Saharan Africa. “The chronic backlog of affordable housing in Sub-Saharan Africa offers governments and funding institutions huge growth opportunities – if they are able to think a bit differently and better understand the context in which they are operating,” says McGaffin. Millions of people throughout Sub-Saharan Africa are unable to find affordable, adequate housing. For example, the 2013 Africa Housing... Continue Reading
By Ngozi Achebe, MD – It’s been a year exactly, March 21st 2013, since the world woke up to the news of Chinua Achebe’s passing. For me personally it was a day of great sorrow for one is never really prepared for the death of a beloved one. In that year a lot has happened as time has rolled on relentlessly. There’s an adage that declares that death is final, but is it? In the movie Gravity George Clooney playing the astronaut Kowalski declares back to earth with some desperation after some heart stopping moments in space, “Here’s hoping you have... Continue Reading
