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Apr 22, 2024 | 
256businessnews.com | Ruth Douglas
[OXFORD] Spanning 95 kilometres, the six-lane Mumbai-Pune Expressway is one of India’s busiest roads, notorious for road traffic collisions. In 2016, these resulted in 151 deaths. But in the last seven years, fatalities on the expressway have more than halved following the introduction of the “zero fatality corridor” pioneered by SaveLIFE Foundation, an NGO dedicated to reducing road deaths in the country.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
scidev.net | Ruth Douglas
[OXFORD] The scientific community could support indigenous communities in Indonesia by providing evidence of their economic value and research into their experiences of climate change, a prominent indigenous leader told SciDev.Net. Globally, about 36 per cent of remaining intact forests are on indigenous peoples’ lands, with these communities safeguarding 80 per cent of the world’s remaining biodiversity, according to the .
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
scidev.net | Ruth Douglas
[OXFORD] Spanning 95 kilometres, the six-lane Mumbai-Pune Expressway is one of India’s busiest roads, notorious for road traffic collisions. In 2016, these resulted in 151 deaths. But in the last seven years, fatalities on the expressway have more than halved following the introduction of the “zero fatality corridor” pioneered by SaveLIFE Foundation, an NGO dedicated to reducing road deaths in the country.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
scidev.net | Ruth Douglas
[LONDON] A new UK-based science and innovation hub led by global agricultural research organisations will drive advances in climate-resilient crops to help tackle the world’s food crisis, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told a summit in London. Less than seven years ahead of the UN’s 2030 goal of ending hunger and malnutrition, more than 258 million people are at imminent risk of starvation, according to the World Food Programme.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
fr.allafrica.com | Ruth Douglas
Les dirigeants mondiaux doivent être tenus responsables de leurs engagements renouvelés pour mettre fin à la tuberculose , y compris l'homologation d'un nouveau vaccin, a exhorté la communauté mondiale de la santé à la suite d'une réunion très attendue des Nations Unies à New York.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
allafrica.com | Ruth Douglas
World leaders must be held to account over renewed commitments to end TB including licensing a new vaccine, the global health community urged following a highly anticipated UN meeting in New York. There was applause in the conference room at the UN headquarters on Friday (22 September) as leaders approved a political declaration pledging billions of dollars in funding and setting out ambitious targets for the next five years towards ending the global TB epidemic.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
fr.allafrica.com | Ruth Douglas
DOUALA/LONDRES/LAGOS — A en croire un spécialiste du paludisme, conseiller auprès de la principale agence sanitaire du continent, les concepteurs de vaccins doivent partager leur savoir-faire pour la production d'un vaccin innovant contre le paludisme, afin que les campagnes de vaccination soient aussi efficaces que possible auprès des populations africaines qui en ont le plus besoin.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
allafrica.com | Jackie Opara |Ruth Douglas |Julien Chongwang
London/Douala/Lagos — Vaccine developers must share the know-how behind a groundbreaking new malaria jab so it can be rolled out efficiently to poor populations in Africa that need it most, according to a senior malaria advisor to the continent's main healthcare agency. "We need to start having this conversation around tech transfer and IP," said Nicaise Ndembi, advisor to the director general of Africa CDC, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
scidev.net | Ruth Douglas |Julien Chongwang |Jackie Opara
[LONDON/DOUALA/LAGOS] Vaccine developers must share the know-how behind a groundbreaking new malaria jab so it can be rolled out efficiently to poor populations in Africa that need it most, according to a senior malaria advisor to the continent’s main healthcare agency. “We need to start having this conversation around tech transfer and IP,” said Nicaise Ndembi, advisor to the director general of Africa CDC, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
scidev.net | Ruth Douglas
World leaders must be held to account over renewed commitments to end TB including licensing a new vaccine, the global health community urged following a highly anticipated UN meeting in New York. There was applause in the conference room at the UN headquarters on Friday (22 September) as leaders approved a political declaration pledging billions of dollars in funding and setting out ambitious targets for the next five years towards ending the global TB epidemic.
