Africa: Will Mali Cope Without UN Peacekeepers?: [allAfrica] Cape Town — Peacekeeping operations have played a crucial role in stabilising fragile situations across Africa for more than 60 years. United Nations (UN)-led missions in Africa and about 27 African-led peace support operations since 2000 incurred billions of dollars annually and cost thousands of peacekeepers’ lives. Now Somalia, Mali and the DR Congo face significant security vacuums, which will undermine safety and worsen humanitarian conditions, the Institute for Security Studies reports. – AllAfrica News: Africa
Africa: Bill Gates Talks Gene Drives, mRNA, and U.S.m in Science Funding: [allAfrica] Dakar — Infectious diseases continue to be the major causes of deaths in Africa. The burden of existing, emerging and re-emerging diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, cholera, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, sleeping sickness, Ebola and SARS continues to grow – and once you move beyond mortality statistics, the huge s ocio-economic costs – care and treatment, hospital admissions, productivity loss, and disability reveals a heavy toll on the continent. – AllAfrica News: Africa
Africa: TB Vaccine – WHO Expert Explains Why It’s Taken 100 Years for a Scientific Breakthrough, and Why It’s Such a Big Deal: [The Conversation Africa] The BCG vaccine for TB has been used for 100 years. It is largely effective for children under five, but less so in older people and can’t be used on patients who have certain medical conditions. Today we’re the closest we’ve ever been to discovering a vaccine that might replace or complement it. Charles Shey Wiysonge, the World Health Organization’s Regional Adviser for Immunisation, discusses the latest developments in the fight against one of the world’s deadliest diseases. – AllAfrica News: Africa
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