For Africans wondering whether the malaria drugs they’ve bought are real, there may soon be a quick way of finding out: sending a text message.
More than 30% of malaria medicines sold in Africa are reportedly counterfeit, a problem that has led Nigeria to adopt mPedigree, which enables users to independently verify that their anti-malarial drugs [...]
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Tags: Africa, Health, Mobile, Mobile health 
1 Comment »The world’s population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years — and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that Hans Rosling unveils at TED@Cannes using colorful new data display technology.
As a doctor and researcher, Hans Rosling identified a new [...]
Posted in Children, Education, Health Tags: Children, Environment, Global population, Millennium Development Goals No Comments »A consortium of international groups including the mHealth Alliance announced today (24/6) a call for collaboration to accelerate the use of modern information and communications technologies (ICTs), especially wireless, to improve maternal and newborn health in the developing world. They called for financial and organizational support to leverage the growing use of wireless technology [...]
Posted in Children, Education, Grassroots, Health Tags: Children, Health, Sanitation, UN, Women 1 Comment »ENO Tree Planting Day is an open event for schools and groups interested in environment and peace. It is arranged twice in a year, in May and in September. Tree planting is one of the most popular activities in the ENO Programme. Environment Online – ENO is a global virtual school and network for sustainable [...]
185 voices from 12 countries join a choir that spans the globe, in “Lux Aurumque,” by Eric Whitacre. It’s an astonishing illustration of how technology can connect us.
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This photo essay on malaria from the Malaria Consortium looks to capture the practical and emotional aspects of the disease’s presence around the world. Malaria continues to result in more than a million deaths every year.
The assignment facing Adam Nadel was to take photographs for an exhibition by the Malaria Consortium. That meant going beyond [...]
Maria is a ChangeMaker student (Stage 2) who lives in Kenya. She is engaged with several environmental projects. To work with “own projects” is the main activity for all Stage 2 students. One of the projects that she is working with is “Save Lake Naivasha”. She had been in the area around the lake and [...]
Posted in Children, Climate Change, Education, Energy, Environment, Grassroots, Health, Human Rights, Hunger, MDGs, Sanitation, Uncategorized, Water, Women Tags: Africa, Climate Change, Environment, Health, Human Rights, MKFC, Stockholm College, Women No Comments »SharingAwareness workshop in Kumasi Ghana, February 2010. Action methods are used for deeper learning and understanding. In this video the process of SODIS (Solar Water disinfection) method is show…
Posted in Education, Grassroots, Health, Sanitation Tags: Africa, Environment, Health, Human Rights, Malaria, Sanitation, Women No Comments »
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