http://medilinkz.org/ Medilinks is your gateway to health and health related information for Africa! en-us Copyright 2004 Medilinks All Rights Reserved. 20 http://medilinkz.org/news/news2.asp?NewsID=30416 At a meeting this week in Nigeria to address African agriculture production, "African leaders and donor agencies have endorsed an ambitious plan to generate employment, income and food security in Africa by developing agribusiness and agro-industries.... http://medilinkz.org/news/news2.asp?NewsID=30426 Virtually eliminating HIV transmission from mother to child is possible, and can be done by 2015, but only if everyone, including the private sector, is fully committed to take action," according to a Huffington Post blog post that makes the "busines.... http://medilinkz.org/news/news2.asp?NewsID=30411 Joe DeCapua 12 March 2010 - The latest military offensive against Rwandan Hutu rebels in the Eastern DRC has reportedly caused at least 10,000 people to flee their villages, says Doctors Without Borders. Fighting between the Congolese army (FARDC).... http://medilinkz.org/news/news2.asp?NewsID=30412 Scott Stearns | Dakar 12 March 2010 - Niger says it needs $123 million of international assistance to make up for food shortages this year. Poor rains across Africa's Sahelian region have brought below-average harvests in Niger, northern Nigeria, cen.... http://medilinkz.org/news/news2.asp?NewsID=30413 Natasha Saini | London 12 March 2010 - Niger is grappling with an acute food crisis and nearly a million children in the country are malnourished of which at least 200,000 are on the brink of starvation. Click to Listen: Aid agencies say .... http://medilinkz.org/news/news2.asp?NewsID=30415 During a conference in London Thursday, development officials urged world leaders to "accelerate efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 and [said] rich countries must make good on promises to boost aid to poorer nations," Reu.... http://medilinkz.org/news/news2.asp?NewsID=30417 Several drugmakers have reached an agreement "to supply up to 200 million doses a year of cut-price pneumococcal vaccines to developing nations," according to GAVI Alliance, Reuters reports. A formal announcement of the deal is expected "in the next .... http://medilinkz.org/news/news2.asp?NewsID=30418 Reflecting on the recent annual report by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a Lancet comment writes, "Two big challenges remain [for the Global Fund]: first, to show, reliably and independently, that the Fund's investments have.... http://medilinkz.org/news/news2.asp?NewsID=30419 "Nearly one in every five child deaths – around 1.5 million a year – is due to diarrhoea, which kills more children than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined. Yet funding and attention directed toward the control of diarrhoea in recent years has been .... http://medilinkz.org/news/news2.asp?NewsID=30420 A Lancet editorial reflects on the implications of the WHO's revised HIV treatment and prevention recommendations: While "[t]he revised guidelines provide a clear path to expand more effective HIV treatment and prevention globally, … the world's appe....