The presentation promotes the integration of local food into city planning. It illustrates how city planners and local governments have no clear planning provisions for food markets/traders, which results in food insecurity and malnutrition.
The Chisokone food market in urban Kitwe (Zambia) occupied zoned land that could be used for a mall and was relocated to make way for “development.” This presentation by African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN) reviews the urban planning framew
The 2013-2015 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa (Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone) was unprecedented, resulting in more than 11,000 human deaths with an estimated total cost of US$4.3 billion.
As confirmed by the WHO’s guidelines on risk communication and community engagement issued for the 2018 Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), research is a critical component to both outbreak control measures and future pr
Increasing consumption of unhealthy diets is fuelling the growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) across Sub-Saharan Africa.
This thesis examines the lived experiences of African journalists involved in the recent Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak. It contends that African journalists did not cover the crisis efficiently because of several barriers.
Global collaboration is the key to stop infectious diseases.
Researchers have identified changes in nutrition in Africa as one of the main causes of the rising epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
The looming tobacco epidemic and its potential for thwarting development has prompted most governments in sub-Saharan Africa to ratify the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC).