State of the world's nursing 2025
<p>Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent
Africa
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Melting mountain
Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, might lose its all-year ice snow by 2015 due to climate chan ges. This warning was issued by Greenpeace, an international pressure group. "The snow
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Pricing the precious
A pricing mechanism and harvesting techniques will solve water crisis
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Fatal impact
Benny Peiser, an anthropologist at Liverpool John Moores University has shown through a computer simulation that more than 1,000 fatal impacts in a 100,000-year period. These fatal impacts were
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Double standards
The US government procures generic drugs for anthrax from a non patent holder
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Nigeria
Faced with mounting pressure from local automobile manufacturers, the Nigerian government has decided to ban the import of vehicles more than five-year-old with effect from January 2002. "This
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TANZANIA
The United Nations Deve lopment Programme (undp) is launching a new initiative for conserving Mount Kili manjaro by involving communities who live around the mountain. "Under the aegis of the
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KENYA
In another 20 years, Africa will not have enough to eat, indicates a recent study. The study 2020 Global Food Outlook was conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute, a
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Hungry for research
Child starvation could increase unless research is improved
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Face value
It's easier to recognise a face when its owner's race matches our own, is the controversial finding of a new study. An imaging study shows that greater activity in the brain's expert
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Deadly dust
Dust blown from Africa not only produces striking sunsets in Florida, usa, but also carries with it lethal stowaway bacteria and fungi. The dust plumes begin their trans-Atlantic journey from the