Making a difference
A lovely lady who introduced herself as Sochenda Kann greeted me. I was hot and weary after having been unwell with food poisoning a few days before. I had been in Cambodia for four days. Only a week before I had been freezing in England without the vaguest idea what Cambodia would be like. I [...]
Trued , Reconciliation, Amnesty and Impunity
Introduction The best example of a working Trued and Reconciliation Committee (TRC), is that of South Africa. According to Wikipedia there are 22 TRC in the world, predominately in the Americas (8), than Africa (6) and third Asia (6). In April 2010, The Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University in Durham North Carolina, organized a conference [...]
USAID to spearhead use of mobile phones in the fight against TB in Kenya
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) office in Kenya plans to introduce new technologies in the country’s war against tuberculosis, said Erna Kerst, Mission Director. Last year, the country, placed 15th among 22 most TB burdened countries in the world, reported 106, 083 new cases due to the disease. According to Maurice Maina of [...]
Award to Aeras Boosts hunt for TB vaccine
Aeras has on Thursday announced the receipt of a grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation of up to US $220 million over five years, placing it at the forefront of a global scientific initiative aimed at developing safe, effective vaccines against tuberculosis, a disease that infects two billion people worldwide. “We are grateful [...]
MSF closes its largest medical centres in Mogadishu after killings
…… Other projects in Somalia continue, but MSF medical assistance in Somali capital reduced by half. Following the tragic killings of our colleagues Philippe Havet and Dr. Karel Keiluhu in Mogadishu, Somalia, on 29 December 2011, the medical humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) sees itself forced to end all activities in the Hodandistrict of [...]
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