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LPG gas is quite expensive, and I cannot afford it,\" Njenga added.\n\nWhen Njenga burns firewood in her kitchen made of iron sheets, the roof, walls and wooden pillars are covered in soot and the 65-year-old is engulfed in smoke.\n\nExperts say biomass such as firewood is the largest contributor to respiratory diseases.\n\nData from Kenya\u2019s health ministry shows that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is responsible for 1.7 per cent of deaths in the country.\n\n\"It is not only carbon monoxide but one of the biggest problems is particulate matters,\u201d said Evans Amukoye, a scientist at the Kenya Medical Research Institute's respiratory diseases centre.\n\n\u201cThe particulate matters are the ones we usually call PM 2.5 and this is associated with pneumonia, it is the one associated with asthma and so on. 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LPG gas is quite expensive, and I cannot afford it,\" Njenga added.<\/p>\n When Njenga burns firewood in her kitchen made of iron sheets, the roof, walls and wooden pillars are covered in soot and the 65-year-old is engulfed in smoke.<\/p>\n Experts say biomass such as firewood is the largest contributor to respiratory diseases.<\/p>\n Data from Kenya\u2019s health ministry<\/strong><\/a> shows that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is responsible for 1.7 per cent of deaths in the country.<\/p>\n \"It is not only carbon monoxide but one of the biggest problems is particulate matters,\u201d said Evans Amukoye, a scientist at the Kenya Medical Research Institute's respiratory diseases centre.<\/p>\n \u201cThe particulate matters are the ones we usually call PM 2.5 and this is associated with pneumonia, it is the one associated with asthma and so on. 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call each other by unique names, new study shows","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Call me by my name: Elephants' low rumbles could be unique to one another, research reveals","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Elephants call each other by unique names, new study reveals","titleListing2":"Call me by my name: Elephants low rumbles could be unique to one another, research reveals","leadin":"Researchers found that the low rumbles of African elephants could be them calling one another by name.","summary":"Researchers found that the low rumbles of African elephants could be them calling one another by name.","keySentence":"","url":"call-me-by-my-name-elephants-low-rumbles-could-be-unique-to-one-another-research-reveals","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/06\/12\/call-me-by-my-name-elephants-low-rumbles-could-be-unique-to-one-another-research-reveals","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"African elephants call each other and respond to individual names - something that few wild animals do, according to new research published on Monday in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.\n\nThe names are one part of elephants' low rumbles that they can hear over long distances across the savanna. Scientists believe that animals with complex social structures and family groups that separate and then reunite often may be more likely to use individual names.\n\n\u201cIf you\u2019re looking after a large family, you\u2019ve got to be able to say, \u2018Hey, Virginia, get over here!\u2019\u201d says Duke University ecologist Stuart Pimm, who was not involved in the study.\n\nIt\u2019s extremely rare for wild animals to call each other by unique names. Humans have names, of course, and pet dogs come when their names are called. Baby dolphins invent their own names, called signature whistles, and parrots may also use names.\n\nEach of these naming species also possesses the ability to learn to pronounce unique new sounds throughout their lives - a rare talent that elephants also possess.\n\n'Just like humans, elephants use names'\n\nFor the study, biologists used machine learning to detect the use of names in a sound library of savanna elephant vocalisations recorded at Kenya's Samburu National Reserve and Amboseli National Park.\n\nThe researchers followed the elephants in jeeps to observe who called out and who appeared to respond - for example, if a mother called to a calf, or a matriarch called to a straggler who later rejoined the family group.\n\nAnalysing only the audio data, the computer model predicted which elephant was being addressed 28 per cent of the time, likely due to the inclusion of its name. When fed meaningless data, the model only accurately labeled 8 per cent of calls.\n\n\u201cJust like humans, elephants use names, but probably don't use names in the majority of utterances, so we wouldn't expect 100 per cent,\u201d says study author and Cornell University biologist Mickey Pardo.\n\nElephant rumbles include sounds that are below the range of human hearing. The scientists still don't know which part of the vocalisation is the name.\n\nElephants responded to recordings containing their names\n\nResearchers tested their results by playing recordings to individual elephants, who responded more energetically, ears flapping and trunk lifted, to recordings that contained their names. Sometimes elephants entirely ignored vocalisations addressed to others.\n\n\u201cElephants are incredibly social, always talking and touching each other - this naming is probably one of the things that underpins their ability to communicate to individuals,\u201d says co-author and Colorado State University ecologist George Wittemyer, who is also a scientific adviser for nonprofit Save the Elephants.\n\n\u201cWe just cracked open the door a bit to the elephant mind.\u201d\n\n","htmlText":" African elephants call each other and respond to individual names - something that few wild animals do, according to new research published on Monday in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.<\/p>\n The names are one part of elephants' low rumbles that they can hear over long distances across the savanna. Scientists believe that animals with complex social structures and family groups that separate and then reunite often may be more likely to use individual names.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you\u2019re looking after a large family, you\u2019ve got to be able to say, \u2018Hey, Virginia, get over here!\u2019\u201d says Duke University ecologist Stuart Pimm, who was not involved in the study.<\/p>\n It\u2019s extremely rare for wild animals to call each other by unique names. Humans have names, of course, and pet dogs come when their names are called. Baby dolphins<\/strong><\/a> invent their own names, called signature whistles, and parrots may also use names.<\/p>\n Each of these naming species also possesses the ability to learn to pronounce unique new sounds throughout their lives - a rare talent that elephants also possess.<\/p>\n For the study, biologists<\/strong><\/a> used machine learning to detect the use of names in a sound library of savanna elephant vocalisations recorded at Kenya's Samburu National Reserve and Amboseli National Park.<\/p>\n The researchers followed the elephants<\/strong><\/a> in jeeps to observe who called out and who appeared to respond - for example, if a mother called to a calf, or a matriarch called to a straggler who later rejoined the family group.<\/p>\n Analysing only the audio data, the computer model predicted which elephant was being addressed 28 per cent of the time, likely due to the inclusion of its name. When fed meaningless data, the model only accurately labeled 8 per cent of calls.<\/p>\n \u201cJust like humans, elephants<\/strong><\/a> use names, but probably don't use names in the majority of utterances, so we wouldn't expect 100 per cent,\u201d says study author and Cornell University biologist Mickey Pardo.<\/p>\n Elephant rumbles include sounds that are below the range of human hearing. The scientists still don't know which part of the vocalisation is the name.<\/p>\n Researchers tested their results by playing recordings to individual elephants, who responded more energetically, ears flapping and trunk lifted, to recordings that contained their names. Sometimes elephants<\/strong><\/a> entirely ignored vocalisations addressed to others.<\/p>\n \u201cElephants are incredibly social, always talking and touching each other - this naming is probably one of the things that underpins their ability to communicate<\/strong><\/a> to individuals,\u201d says co-author and Colorado State University ecologist George Wittemyer, who is also a scientific adviser for nonprofit Save the Elephants.<\/p>\n \u201cWe just cracked open the door a bit to the elephant mind.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1718111982,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1718168431,"firstPublishedAt":1718168431,"lastPublishedAt":1718168460,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/49\/52\/18\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_2d6c3cbd-1eee-522a-902c-8ffd41f1f976-8495218.jpg","altText":"In this undated photo, an African elephant family comforts a calf in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya. 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We have different needs,\u201d said Adhiambo.\n\nNow Adhiambo sells her medical data to an app and in return gets to see a doctor.\n\nShe gets a credit when she gives her data to the app, which the company behind it calls virtual \"Hippocratic coins\".\n\n\u201cThe first time I tried the app was when I had some phantom pains, and I realised that I was able to book an appointment and meet a doctor. I had a conversation with a doctor and he guided me on how to go on the phantom pain,\u201d Adhiambo said.\n\nAdhiambo says she wouldn't be able to afford health care any other way.\n\n\u201cFor me, it is an achievement because sometimes, when I want to go to a hospital, for phantom pain, I need to have some money for consultation and everything. But with the app, I only ask Dr Nick if I can see him through the app, if I can see him in his available hours and he was like yeah you can just come and we will sort that out with the app owners\".\n\nThe app Snark Health connects patients with doctors for diagnosis and treatment.\n\nAccording to the startup, at least a third of the earnings from sales the company makes with users\u2019 data goes to them, which they can use to pay for medical services on the app.\n\nSnark Health says it's also a way for fee-paying patients to make extra money.\n\nIf a paying customer agrees to the collection and sale of their health data they will get an equal share of the cash earned, so Snark, the doctor and the patient each earn a third of the money made through the sale of personal data.\n\n\"When a patient logs onto our platform, he has two choices either to take part in our data monetisation programme or simply pay via M-PESA [a mobile money transfer service based in Africa] via cash and proceed to book a consultation. If they choose to be part of our data monetisation\u2026again all our data is anonymised, they will earn at least 33 per cent or a third of the earnings from our data sale,\" said Edwin Lubanga, Snark Health\u2019s founder.\n\nLubanga believes the app can help more people get qualified medical attention without having to pay for it in cash.\n\n\"That is how over time patients are empowered. They are getting money in their wallet which they can afford to pay for the next doctor's appointment. Whether they have insurance or they do not have insurance, they have an opportunity to have money in their wallet which they can use to afford the next consultation,\" said Lubanga.\n\nSnark incentivises doctors in various ways to join the app. When they see patients like Adhiambo who cannot pay, they receive 10 per cent of the cash Snark Health earns by selling her anonymised data.\n\n\"I have been using this application for about two years, and it has really changed the way I practice. I am now able to put my available times on the application and the patient on the other side is able to see the time,\" said Nick Were, an orthopaedic doctor.\n\n\"This has improved the time management such that the patient does not have to wait for too long and now I am also able to earn through the app\".\n\nSnark Health says it uses blockchain technology to protect user identity so the patient's sensitive health information can't be traced back to them.\n\nThe anonymised data is sold to pharmaceutical or consumer health companies.\n\n\"Once it's anonymised that means that we will never know, the encounter is just between the doctor and the patient, and we cannot trace back to which particular patient was diagnosed with what,\u201d Lubanga said.\n\n\u201cThe algorithm is only picking out the information we are researching. So let's say a data customer is searching for specific things like malaria patterns happening in a certain side of the country, then Snark is able to show all these analytics\".\n\nA \u2018technical fix\u2019\n\nA blockchain is a distributed ledger or database that enables users to exchange data in a decentralised and safe manner.\n\nEach block contains a data set and a timestamp and the data blocks are linked to each other.\n\nThese blocks are closed and the data can only be read or added to. Experts say such characteristics make blockchain an ideal tool for the healthcare sector, which deals with large amounts of highly sensitive data.\n\n\u201cBlockchain is particularly suitable for allowing for the creation of personalised ledgers of medical data, which patients can control, and the trend leverages that technical feature of blockchain to provide patient-centric approaches where patients decide who has access to the data, under what conditions, for what purposes, and at what price,\u201d Immaculate Motsi-Omoijiade, the Responsible AI Lead at Charles Sturt University, told Euronews Health.\n\nExperts say blockchain technology can be a \u201ctechnical fix\u201d for ensuring the security of patient data.\n\n\u201cHealth data is always very sensitive data. But at the same time, we need to exchange these huge amounts of data between the different actors within health care,\u201d Giovanni Rubeis, Head of the Division of Biomedical and Public Health Ethics at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, told Euronews Health.\n\n\u201cBlockchain technologies could really be a technical fix for overcoming this trade-off due to their features,\u201d Rubeis added.\n\nHe says he was impressed with Snark Health and its business model.\n\n\u201cPaying for services with our data is something that we do in our everyday life. If you use a service like Google Maps or similar services, for example, these are free, but you pay with your metadata, with your user data when you use them,\u201d Rubeis added.\n\n\u201cI think it could be used to optimise certain health care services, for example, to speed up processes of exchanging data, which is a huge problem that most European health care systems are faced with,\u201d he added.\n\n\u2018Not a magic bullet\u2019\n\nBlockchain technology alone is not a \u201cmagic bullet\u201d and experts say systematic and regulatory interventions should take ethics into consideration.\n\n\u201cThere are a lot of legal uncertainties around blockchain, and these should be clarified by defining their legal status and acknowledging them as an enabler of data security and privacy protection,\u201d said Rubeis.\n\n\u201cOne important aspect in this regard would be to define standards of compatibility for blockchain technologies with existing regulations like the GDPR in the European Union, for example, and the HIPAA in the US,\u201d he added.\n\n\"Blockchain technology can be secure because it's immutable, it's tamper-proof and pseudonymous, and then there's the cryptographic authentication,\" said Motsi-Omoijiade.\n\n\"However, it's not foolproof and it is specific to the type of blockchain,\" she added.\n\nThe app also has a responsibility to be clear about what it can and can\u2019t do, Motsi-Omoijiade said.\n\nAs patient data is the \u201clifeblood of the industry,\u201d she would be curious to know how much the data is sold for as the global pharmaceutical industry\u2019s revenues total nearly $1.5 trillion (\u20ac1.39 trillion).\n\nAccording to Snark, the app has so far attracted more than 300 doctors and 4,000 patients.\n\nFor more on this story, watch the video in the media player above.\n\n","htmlText":" Kenyan resident Belinda Adhiambo had to have her leg amputated when she was three years old after an accident and she still suffers from phantom pains.<\/p>\n But in her hometown Kibera, a large impoverished neighbourhood in Nairobi, paying a doctor could mean missing a meal.<\/p>\n \"Most of these insurance covers do not cover persons with disabilities because of our diversity. We have different needs,\u201d said Adhiambo.<\/p>\n Now Adhiambo sells her medical data to an app and in return gets to see a doctor.<\/p>\n She gets a credit when she gives her data to the app, which the company behind it calls virtual \"Hippocratic coins\".<\/p>\n \u201cThe first time I tried the app was when I had some phantom pains, and I realised that I was able to book an appointment and meet a doctor. I had a conversation with a doctor and he guided me on how to go on the phantom pain,\u201d Adhiambo said.<\/p>\n Adhiambo says she wouldn't be able to afford health care any other way.<\/p>\n \u201cFor me, it is an achievement because sometimes, when I want to go to a hospital, for phantom pain, I need to have some money for consultation and everything. But with the app, I only ask Dr Nick if I can see him through the app, if I can see him in his available hours and he was like yeah you can just come and we will sort that out with the app owners\".<\/p>\n The app Snark Health connects patients with doctors for diagnosis and treatment.<\/p>\n According to the startup, at least a third of the earnings from sales the company makes with users\u2019 data goes to them, which they can use to pay for medical services on the app.<\/p>\n Snark Health says it's also a way for fee-paying patients to make extra money.<\/p>\n If a paying customer agrees to the collection and sale of their health data they will get an equal share of the cash earned, so Snark, the doctor and the patient each earn a third of the money made through the sale of personal data.<\/p>\n \"When a patient logs onto our platform, he has two choices either to take part in our data monetisation programme or simply pay via M-PESA [a mobile money transfer service based in Africa] via cash and proceed to book a consultation. If they choose to be part of our data monetisation\u2026again all our data is anonymised, they will earn at least 33 per cent or a third of the earnings from our data sale,\" said Edwin Lubanga, Snark Health\u2019s founder.<\/p>\n Lubanga believes the app can help more people get qualified medical attention without having to pay for it in cash.<\/p>\n \"That is how over time patients are empowered. They are getting money in their wallet which they can afford to pay for the next doctor's appointment. Whether they have insurance or they do not have insurance, they have an opportunity to have money in their wallet which they can use to afford the next consultation,\" said Lubanga.<\/p>\n Snark incentivises doctors in various ways to join the app. When they see patients like Adhiambo who cannot pay, they receive 10 per cent of the cash Snark Health earns by selling her anonymised data.<\/p>\n \"I have been using this application for about two years, and it has really changed the way I practice. I am now able to put my available times on the application and the patient on the other side is able to see the time,\" said Nick Were, an orthopaedic doctor.<\/p>\n \"This has improved the time management such that the patient does not have to wait for too long and now I am also able to earn through the app\".<\/p>\n Snark Health says it uses blockchain technology to protect user identity so the patient's sensitive health information can't be traced back to them.<\/p>\n The anonymised data is sold to pharmaceutical or consumer health companies.<\/p>\n \"Once it's anonymised that means that we will never know, the encounter is just between the doctor and the patient, and we cannot trace back to which particular patient was diagnosed with what,\u201d Lubanga said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe algorithm is only picking out the information we are researching. So let's say a data customer is searching for specific things like malaria patterns happening in a certain side of the country, then Snark is able to show all these analytics\".<\/p>\n A blockchain is a distributed ledger or database that enables users to exchange data in a decentralised and safe manner.<\/p>\n Each block contains a data set and a timestamp and the data blocks are linked to each other.<\/p>\n These blocks are closed and the data can only be read or added to. Experts say such characteristics make blockchain an ideal tool for the healthcare sector, which deals with large amounts of highly sensitive data.<\/p>\n \u201cBlockchain is particularly suitable for allowing for the creation of personalised ledgers of medical data, which patients can control, and the trend leverages that technical feature of blockchain to provide patient-centric approaches where patients decide who has access to the data, under what conditions, for what purposes, and at what price,\u201d Immaculate Motsi-Omoijiade, the Responsible AI Lead at Charles Sturt University, told Euronews Health.<\/p>\n Experts say blockchain technology can be a \u201ctechnical fix\u201d for ensuring the security of patient data.<\/p>\n \u201cHealth data is always very sensitive data. But at the same time, we need to exchange these huge amounts of data between the different actors within health care,\u201d Giovanni Rubeis, Head of the Division of Biomedical and Public Health Ethics at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, told Euronews Health.<\/p>\n \u201cBlockchain technologies could really be a technical fix for overcoming this trade-off due to their features,\u201d Rubeis added.<\/p>\n He says he was impressed with Snark Health and its business model.<\/p>\n \u201cPaying for services with our data is something that we do in our everyday life. If you use a service like Google Maps or similar services, for example, these are free, but you pay with your metadata, with your user data when you use them,\u201d Rubeis added.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it could be used to optimise certain health care services, for example, to speed up processes of exchanging data, which is a huge problem that most European health care systems are faced with,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Blockchain technology alone is not a \u201cmagic bullet\u201d and experts say systematic and regulatory interventions should take ethics into consideration.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are a lot of legal uncertainties around blockchain, and these should be clarified by defining their legal status and acknowledging them as an enabler of data security and privacy protection,\u201d said Rubeis.<\/p>\n \u201cOne important aspect in this regard would be to define standards of compatibility for blockchain technologies with existing regulations like the GDPR in the European Union, for example, and the HIPAA in the US,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \"Blockchain technology can be secure because it's immutable, it's tamper-proof and pseudonymous, and then there's the cryptographic authentication,\" said Motsi-Omoijiade.<\/p>\n \"However, it's not foolproof and it is specific to the type of blockchain,\" she added.<\/p>\n The app also has a responsibility to be clear about what it can and can\u2019t do, Motsi-Omoijiade said.<\/p>\n As patient data is the \u201clifeblood of the industry,\u201d she would be curious to know how much the data is sold for as the global pharmaceutical industry\u2019s revenues total nearly $1.5 trillion (\u20ac1.39 trillion).<\/p>\n According to Snark, the app has so far attracted more than 300 doctors and 4,000 patients.<\/p>\n For more on this story, watch the video in the media player 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Could a new locally produced drug be gamechanger?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Could a new locally produced drug help Kenya overcome deadly malaria?","titleListing2":"Kenya is gripped by deadly malaria. Could a new, locally produced drug be gamechanger?","leadin":"The WHO approved a Kenya-based pharma company to produce a crucial antimalarial drug locally, reducing reliance on imports from India and China.","summary":"The WHO approved a Kenya-based pharma company to produce a crucial antimalarial drug locally, reducing reliance on imports from India and China.","keySentence":"","url":"kenya-is-gripped-by-deadly-malaria-could-a-new-locally-produced-drug-be-gamechanger","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2024\/05\/12\/kenya-is-gripped-by-deadly-malaria-could-a-new-locally-produced-drug-be-gamechanger","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites transmitted to humans through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes.\u00a0\n\nIt is preventable and curable, but poverty makes it deadly for those who can\u2019t afford treatment.\n\nIn Kenya, it continues to leave a trail of loss and grief.\n\nAccording to the World Health Organization (WHO), the country had an estimated 5 million malaria cases and over 12,000 deaths in 2022.\n\nMost of those affected are children under 5 and pregnant women.\n\nWinnie Akinyi, who lives in western Kenya, recently lost her sister Rosebella who fell ill in December and lost her five-month pregnancy before her death.\n\nShe says it was the latest of five deaths in her family attributed to malaria.\n\n\"It's incredibly painful for us. Malaria, a treatable illness, has claimed the lives of two family members who couldn't access treatment in time. Another loved one has fallen victim,\" she said.\u00a0\n\n\"We're left wondering how we can conquer malaria and put an end to its devastating impact\".\n\nAkinyi is now a guardian of Rosebella\u2019s 11-year-old son, the only survivor in the family.\n\nAccess to treatment remains a challenge\n\nWith public hospitals often grappling with medication shortages, and private facilities demanding exorbitant fees for care, access to treatment remains a challenge for people in Kenya.\n\n\"Most government facilities don't offer the exact medication that is doing away with the sickness of the malaria parasite,\" said Wilson Otieno Ogola, a 33-year-old accountant who has been admitted to a hospital three times for malaria and has received outpatient treatment countless times.\n\n\"In major cases, people opt to go to private facilities where they are going to get faster medication and a quality medication but it is never pocket-friendly,\" Ogola added.\n\nThe situation frustrates healthcare workers.\n\n\"There are a lot of instances where you'd like, as a healthcare worker you would like to give the drug of choice for the first line which is artesunate but because of unavailability or it\u2019s just too costly for a population, most times we prescribe the drug but the patients don't get it from the pharmacy due to either unavailability or the cost,\" said Oswal Omondi, a medical officer at Nightingale Hospital Kisumu.\n\nBeyond healthcare system shortcomings, Humphrey Kizito Otieno, who has lost both parents and six siblings to malaria, says cultural beliefs are in part to blame for delays in seeking treatment.\n\n\"Families believe so much in witchcraft, you find somebody is suffering from malaria, the symptoms are glaring but then a family would think that their child has been bewitched,\u201d Otieno, a mortality surveillance field officer at Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI),\u00a0 said.\u00a0\n\n\"So, instead of seeking medication, the correct medication, they look for alternative ways of treating, like visiting religious people. Before you know it, this parasite has grown and has overwhelmed the person\".\n\nLocal manufacture of\u00a0 a crucial antimalarial drug\n\nSome progress has been made as the WHO approved the Kenya-based Universal Corporation Limited to produce a crucial antimalarial drug known as sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus amodiaquine, or Spaq.\n\nThe local manufacturing is expected to reduce reliance on imports from India and China and ensure timely access to medications.\n\n\"To increase self-sufficiency on the continent, with the stamp of WHO approval, it means that we are also internationally certified again as a quality manufacturer,\" Palu Dhanani, the founder and managing director of Universal Corporation Limited, said.\u00a0\n\n\"And because the continent's problem, malaria is one of the biggest challenges, it will really help in lowering the dependency for imports as we saw during the COVID era where whatever was being imported actually had huge supply disruptions and malaria is such a thing that if you don't get the right medicine at the right time we all know it can cause unnecessary deaths\".\n\nBut experts stress the urgent need for increased investment in the pharmaceutical sector to address diseases affecting low and middle-income countries.\n\n\"If we get more investment in manufacturing of medicines and essential medicines, including antimalarial, where the problem is, then we are likely to be more effective in addressing the problem, instead of relying heavily on importation of medicines. Africa is highly dependent on imports from India and China and that is not sustainable,\" said Michael Mungoma, the dean of the School of Pharmacy at Mount Kenya University.\n\nIn 2023, parts of Kenya participated in an important pilot of the world's first malaria vaccine, which helped decrease the number of deaths for children under 5.\n\nKenya's health ministry hasn't said when the vaccine will be widely available. The disease is still a significant public health challenge according to experts.\n\nFor more on this story, watch the video in the media player above.\n\n","htmlText":" Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites transmitted to humans through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes.\u00a0<\/p>\n It is preventable and curable, but poverty makes it deadly for those who can\u2019t afford treatment.<\/p>\n In Kenya, it continues to leave a trail of loss and grief.<\/p>\n According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the country had an estimated 5 million malaria cases and over 12,000 deaths in 2022.<\/p>\n Most of those affected are children under 5 and pregnant women.<\/p>\n Winnie Akinyi, who lives in western Kenya, recently lost her sister Rosebella who fell ill in December and lost her five-month pregnancy before her death.<\/p>\n She says it was the latest of five deaths in her family attributed to malaria.<\/p>\n \"It's incredibly painful for us. Malaria, a treatable illness, has claimed the lives of two family members who couldn't access treatment in time. Another loved one has fallen victim,\" she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n \"We're left wondering how we can conquer malaria and put an end to its devastating impact\".<\/p>\n Akinyi is now a guardian of Rosebella\u2019s 11-year-old son, the only survivor in the family.<\/p>\n With public hospitals often grappling with medication shortages, and private facilities demanding exorbitant fees for care, access to treatment remains a challenge for people in Kenya.<\/p>\n \"Most government facilities don't offer the exact medication that is doing away with the sickness of the malaria parasite,\" said Wilson Otieno Ogola, a 33-year-old accountant who has been admitted to a hospital three times for malaria and has received outpatient treatment countless times.<\/p>\n \"In major cases, people opt to go to private facilities where they are going to get faster medication and a quality medication but it is never pocket-friendly,\" Ogola added.<\/p>\n The situation frustrates healthcare workers.<\/p>\n \"There are a lot of instances where you'd like, as a healthcare worker you would like to give the drug of choice for the first line which is artesunate but because of unavailability or it\u2019s just too costly for a population, most times we prescribe the drug but the patients don't get it from the pharmacy due to either unavailability or the cost,\" said Oswal Omondi, a medical officer at Nightingale Hospital Kisumu.<\/p>\n Beyond healthcare system shortcomings, Humphrey Kizito Otieno, who has lost both parents and six siblings to malaria, says cultural beliefs are in part to blame for delays in seeking treatment.<\/p>\n \"Families believe so much in witchcraft, you find somebody is suffering from malaria, the symptoms are glaring but then a family would think that their child has been bewitched,\u201d Otieno, a mortality surveillance field officer at Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI),\u00a0 said.\u00a0<\/p>\n \"So, instead of seeking medication, the correct medication, they look for alternative ways of treating, like visiting religious people. Before you know it, this parasite has grown and has overwhelmed the person\".<\/p>\n Some progress has been made as the WHO approved the Kenya-based Universal Corporation Limited to produce a crucial antimalarial drug known as sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus amodiaquine, or Spaq.<\/p>\n The local manufacturing is expected to reduce reliance on imports from India and China and ensure timely access to medications.<\/p>\n \"To increase self-sufficiency on the continent, with the stamp of WHO approval, it means that we are also internationally certified again as a quality manufacturer,\" Palu Dhanani, the founder and managing director of Universal Corporation Limited, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n \"And because the continent's problem, malaria is one of the biggest challenges, it will really help in lowering the dependency for imports as we saw during the COVID era where whatever was being imported actually had huge supply disruptions and malaria is such a thing that if you don't get the right medicine at the right time we all know it can cause unnecessary deaths\".<\/p>\n But experts stress the urgent need for increased investment in the pharmaceutical sector to address diseases affecting low and middle-income countries.<\/p>\n \"If we get more investment in manufacturing of medicines and essential medicines, including antimalarial, where the problem is, then we are likely to be more effective in addressing the problem, instead of relying heavily on importation of medicines. Africa is highly dependent on imports from India and China and that is not sustainable,\" said Michael Mungoma, the dean of the School of Pharmacy at Mount Kenya University.<\/p>\n In 2023, parts of Kenya participated in an important pilot of the world's first malaria vaccine, which helped decrease the number of deaths for children under 5.<\/p>\n Kenya's health ministry hasn't said when the vaccine will be widely available. The disease is still a significant public health challenge according to experts.<\/p>\n For more on this story, watch the video in the media player above.<\/strong><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1715326639,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1715512899,"firstPublishedAt":1715512903,"lastPublishedAt":1715512899,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/42\/70\/74\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_f85bf9ff-673b-5e51-8e43-784ce213a2f2-8427074.jpg","altText":"In 2023, the WHO approved the Kenya-based Universal Corporation Limited to produce a crucial antimalarial drug known as sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus amodiaquineq.","caption":"In 2023, the WHO approved the Kenya-based Universal Corporation Limited to produce a crucial antimalarial drug known as sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus 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wreaking havoc on the environment. She founded a tree nursery, hoping to replace those that were being destroyed and create a place where nature enthusiasts could grow seedlings. \n\n\"Trees are important for our environment,\" Karen Wanjiru Kimani tells SCENES. I feel happy when I step into my tree nursery, seeing the trees growing and seeing people plant trees.\" \n\nKaren's environmental work has not gone unnoticed. She was elected the Cabinet Secretary for the Environment at school and invited to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP27, in Eygpt. Karen was the youngest delegate at the conference and had the opportunity to speak with world leaders. \n\n\"I met the president of Kenya. I told him about me, and we discussed the environment,\" recalls Karen. \n\nOn the weekends, Karen leads a plastic recycling club and cleans up her community with her friends. \n\nThe young eco-warrior has many ambitions for the future and dreams of opening a plastic recycling factory one day. \n\n\"I would like to do more for the environment. It makes me feel so happy and the environment happy,\" says Karen. \n\nKaren's dream of a greener future in Kenya has taken root and is flourishing. Her initiatives demonstrate that even the tiniest seed can grow and make a real impact. \n\n","htmlText":" Karen felt the need to act when she saw adults wreaking havoc on the environment. She founded a tree nursery, hoping to replace those that were being destroyed and create a place where nature enthusiasts could grow seedlings.<\/p>\n \"Trees are important for our environment,\" Karen Wanjiru Kimani tells SCENES. I feel happy when I step into my tree nursery, seeing the trees growing and seeing people plant trees.\"<\/p>\n Karen's environmental work has not gone unnoticed. She was elected the Cabinet Secretary for the Environment at school and invited to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP27, in Eygpt. Karen was the youngest delegate at the conference and had the opportunity to speak with world leaders.<\/p>\n \"I met the president of Kenya. I told him about me, and we discussed the environment,\" recalls Karen.<\/p>\n On the weekends, Karen leads a plastic recycling club and cleans up her community with her friends.<\/p>\n The young eco-warrior has many ambitions for the future and dreams of opening a plastic recycling factory one day.<\/p>\n \"I would like to do more for the environment. It makes me feel so happy and the environment happy,\" says Karen.<\/p>\n Karen's dream of a greener future in Kenya has taken root and is flourishing. 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Each saw huge spikes in terrorism last year with France even recalling 1,500 troops from Niger after the recent coup. \n\nBut in a UNDP report last year, the most powerful factor pushing people into violent extremism was \u201cdisaffection with government\u201d, with 40% of recruits into militant groups citing economic hardship specifically. \n\nThose who live by the gun are taught that it is the only way to survive and prosper.\u00a0 \n\nThis is a political message, not a religious one. Without addressing it appropriately, conflicts will fester and grow, plunging the world into endless displacement and refugee crises it cannot absorb or solve. \n\nGlobal North nations must acknowledge their disastrous policies' impact on Africa and urgently rebalance security and development strategies to prevent local terror groups from becoming emboldened enough to harbour global ambitions. \n\nBecause the solution isn't increasing its armed presence \u2014 such as through the largest US-led joint military exercise \u2014 or forcing Western societal models onto Africa, but by embracing the continent's unique strengths and diversity. \n\nThis means investing in Africa's burgeoning youth, backing African-led peace and conflict resolution initiatives, empowering respected community and religious leaders over capricious and divisive politicians, and forging new economic partnerships that can counterbalance Russian and Chinese influence. \n\nFaith-based organisations are taking the initiative \n\nIn the absence of unifying political leaders to create this counterbalance and bring Africans together, community and faith-based organisations are filling the trust deficit \u2014 and their potential and capacity to do more should not be underestimated. \n\nFor example, Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) goes beyond providing humanitarian aid: they are peacebuilders in conflict zones, offering lifelines by pairing economic empowerment with education to uproot the seeds of extremism and strengthen communities from the inside out.\u00a0 \n\nLocally in Kenya, the Inter-Religious Council of Kenya (IRCK) unites diverse religious groups to dismantle extremist ideologies, hosting transformative peace workshops and fostering a culture of interfaith understanding in regions plagued by violence. \n\nOther NGOs like the Muslim World League (MWL) work regionally to promote a tolerant vision of Islam through groundbreaking documents like the Charter of Makkah which was signed by 1200 prominent Islamic figures from 139 countries in 2019.\u00a0 \n\nThe Charter is actively being implemented through counter-extremism and capacity\u00a0\u2014 which supports human rights, religious tolerance, and women\u2019s rights\u00a0\u2014 to strike at the core of why individuals turn to terrorism. \n\nThe MWL\u2019s Secretary General, Dr Mohammed Al-Issa, has already forged ties with the African Islamic Union, an organisation with an estimated 100 million followers, which is now implementing the Charter to train a new generation of Imams across the region. \n\nWe're failing to learn from our failures \n\nThe reality is that changing behaviours and attitudes for a day only requires the kind of transactional relationships that Russia and China offer, but changing the dynamic between communities for the long term requires the kind of tireless and sensitive approach adopted by influential civil society and grassroots leaders. \n\nThe opportunity for the West to finally get things right remains: reorientate towards strengthening civil society over a cold, security-above-all-else approach that has not even contained the problem of extremism, let alone put into motion solutions to solve it. \n\nFailure to learn from failed policies risks a future where a continent, soon home to a quarter of the world's population, spirals further into extremism.\u00a0 \n\nTo reverse this trend, we must not only rally around leaders who have consistently demonstrated moral leadership in times of crisis but also support their mission to create new generations of African leaders who do the same. \n\nThe stakes couldn't be higher with Russia and China looking on. Washington's war on terror failed dramatically in Africa, and without a drastic shift in policy that supports the emergence of strong and cohesive African societies, the world will be thrown into a global security crisis of earth-shattering proportions. \n\nChristine Odera is a Kenyan peace and security expert. She is Member of the Board of Directors (Council) for Kenya\u2019s National Youth Service (NYS), Co-Chair of the Kenya Coalition on Youth Peace, and former Global Coordinator of the Commonwealth Youth Peace Ambassadors Network based in London. \n\nAt Euronews, we believe all views matter. Contact us at view@euronews.com to send pitches or submissions and be part of the conversation. \n\n","htmlText":" New shocking figures from the US Department of Defence are a glaring indictment of US policy in Africa: America's \"War on Terror\" has disastrously spiked terrorism in Africa by an astonishing 100,000%, with Islamist violence alone jumping 20% in just the last year.<\/p>\n Decades of misguided US intervention have catapulted Africa into the epicentre of global terrorism, responsible for nearly half the world's terrorist acts.\u00a0<\/p>\n This alarming trend dominated discussions at the African Union summit in Ethiopia, amidst a backdrop of escalating violence and political chaos.<\/p>\n Countries like Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso are already withdrawing from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) after military coups\u00a0\u2014 a move that threatens to plunge the region into deeper turmoil.<\/p>\n The so-called Islamic State, having been territorially defeated in the Middle East, is also worryingly expanding its influence in West Africa and the Sahel, reportedly even readying itself to carry out attacks abroad once more.<\/p>\n The harsh truth is America and the wider Western approach, no matter how well-intentioned, sought security without fostering development and tragically achieved neither.<\/p>\n Because of these failures, Africa is now caught in the crosshairs of Washington's authoritarian rivals, Russia and China.\u00a0<\/p>\n They're aggressively establishing military bases and deploying foreign mercenaries who commit horrific human rights violations, especially against African women, in a ruthless scramble for Africa's riches.<\/p>\n For two decades, American counter-terrorism efforts in Africa have been centred on two main fronts: Somalia and West Africa. Each saw huge spikes in terrorism last year with France even recalling 1,500 troops from Niger after the recent coup.<\/p>\n But in a UNDP report last year, the most powerful factor pushing people into violent extremism was \u201cdisaffection with government\u201d, with 40% of recruits into militant groups citing economic hardship specifically.<\/p>\n Those who live by the gun are taught that it is the only way to survive and prosper.\u00a0<\/p>\n This is a political message, not a religious one. 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But what happens in Africa will not stay in Africa, Nathaniel Mong\u2019are writes.","leadin":"Trump's election victory would see a return to policies that led to a whopping 110 million Africans facing humanitarian and environmental crises today. But what happens in Africa will not stay in Africa, Nathaniel Mong\u2019are writes.","summary":"Trump's election victory would see a return to policies that led to a whopping 110 million Africans facing humanitarian and environmental crises today. But what happens in Africa will not stay in Africa, Nathaniel Mong\u2019are writes.","keySentence":"","url":"a-trump-win-would-see-africa-and-the-world-spiral-into-climate-hell","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/02\/27\/a-trump-win-would-see-africa-and-the-world-spiral-into-climate-hell","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"African policymakers are bracing themselves for the return of Donald Trump. Having swept the Republican primaries, polls consistently put the former US leader neck-and-neck with incumbent Joe Biden in a presidential rematch.\u00a0 \n\nYet, a Trump victory could end up guaranteeing climate disaster for Africa and the world, and Europe must take note. \n\nOf course, at the forefront of most African leaders\u2019 minds is Trump\u2019s undisguised racism, embodied in his expletive-filled rant\u00a0denigrating African nations back in 2018. \n\nHe had also gutted practically all climate funding for dedicated USAID programmes in Africa\u00a0\u2014 programmes initiated under Barack Obama that were crucial to promoting climate resilience by arming African governments with tech, funds and support to fight climate change. \n\nThe programme\u2019s departure\u00a0\u2014 although it has shown signs of a recent revival under Biden\u00a0\u2014 marked years lost and contributed directly to the deepening humanitarian and environmental crisis that today impacts more than 110 million Africans. \n\nBut what happens in Africa will not stay in Africa. Climate change will intensify, not weaken, migration.\u00a0 \n\nFor US patriots who want to see secure borders, they would do well to recognise that the only way to do so is to support African nations in dealing with climate change. \n\nClimate failure will make the exploitation of grievances worse \n\nThat\u2019s why Europeans should equally recognise that Trump\u2019s comeback is a warning signal.\u00a0 \n\nHe represents a new and dangerous trans-Atlantic far-right movement exploiting mounting grievances due to economic challenges which are, ultimately, linked to our chronic dependence on fossil fuels\u00a0\u2014 which has locked us into an inflationary economic crisis. \n\nTrumpist tactics are designed to deflect public attention from this reality, but they are being used across the EU by far-right parties ranging from Germany\u2019s AfD to Geert Wilders Freedom Party in the Netherlands. This requires a concerted fightback, not confused appeasement. \n\nBoth US and European progressive parties need to help voters realise that climate failure will set their futures ablaze. According to the Institute for Economics and Peace, business-as-usual will create as many as 1.2 billion climate refugees by 2050. \n\nIf Americans and Europeans are worried about migrants now, climate change will make this an insoluble challenge. That\u2019s why the EU must not make the same mistakes as President Biden on climate action. \n\nWashington is not taking things seriously anyway \n\nUnder Biden, we\u2019ve seen a record-breaking explosion in approvals for more oil and gas drilling permits \u2014 even more than Trump\u00a0\u2014 coinciding with a new, mammoth ad campaign promoting the expanded use of fossil fuels launched by the American Petroleum Institute. \n\nThis approach has come at odds with US statements during last year\u2019s UN COP28 climate summit in the UAE.\u00a0 \n\nThe US publicly flirted with the idea of a phase-out of fossil fuels and signed up to the historic \"UAE Consensus\" agreement to transition away from fossil fuels and triple renewable energy capacity by 2030. \n\nThe US was also asleep at the wheel when COP28 broke new ground in operationalising a long overdue Loss and Damage Fund for rapid, disaster-relief support to the global South\u00a0\u2014 the US pledged just $17.5 million (\u20ac16.1m), paling embarrassingly in comparison to other contributions from Norway ($25m), Denmark ($50m) and the UAE ($100m).\u00a0 \n\nAnd of course, Biden himself was conspicuously absent from COP28. \n\nThe EU is in danger of following the same road, however, planning \u20ac205 billion in new gas investments, while still offering paltry support for climate investments in the Global South.\u00a0 \n\nWe either mobilise trillions or face the same fate \n\nAt the International Energy Agency (IEA) ministerial meeting in Paris earlier in February, US and EU policymakers said little about the trillions needed to support clean energy in Africa and elsewhere. \n\nIt was only a week later during his first address at the IEA\u2019s Paris headquarters after COP28 that the climate summit\u2019s President Dr Sultan Al Jaber addressed this elephant in the room.\u00a0 \n\nUrging governments and industries to take \u201cunprecedented action\u201d to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels, he pointed to COP28\u2019s launch of Alt\u00e9rra, the world\u2019s largest private investment vehicle for climate action, as a model to be \u201creplicated many times over \u2026 The world must raise the bar to address the challenges we face\u00a0\u2014 mobilising trillions rather than billions\u201d. \n\nHe also asked industries to \u201cdecarbonise at scale\u201d while also calling on governments to invest heavily in expanding national grids so they can absorb new renewable projects at pace. \n\nThis is exactly the entrepreneurial mindset that European policymakers must adopt today. And it must prioritise unlocking trillions of climate finance for the Global South. \n\nA failure to do so would not only throw Africa into the flames of climate disaster but create the foundations for an unprecedented global migrant crisis that could be a gift to the far-right.\u00a0 \n\nWhatever fate we face in Africa will rapidly arrive on the shores of the US and Europe. \n\nBut the reality is that Africans want to prosper in Africa. So it\u2019s time for Western, and European leaders in particular, to create a new unifying vision for a shared future of clean prosperity \u2014 or reckon with the demise of the EU experiment. \n\nNathaniel Mong\u2019are is Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya. He also helped organise the first-ever Africa Climate Week in Kenya in 2023. \n\nAt Euronews, we believe all views matter. Contact us at view@euronews.com to send pitches or submissions and be part of the conversation. \n\n","htmlText":" African policymakers are bracing themselves for the return of Donald Trump. Having swept the Republican primaries, polls consistently put the former US leader neck-and-neck with incumbent Joe Biden in a presidential rematch.\u00a0<\/p>\n Yet, a Trump victory could end up guaranteeing climate disaster for Africa and the world, and Europe must take note.<\/p>\n Of course, at the forefront of most African leaders\u2019 minds is Trump\u2019s undisguised racism, embodied in his expletive-filled rant\u00a0denigrating African nations back in 2018.<\/p>\n He had also gutted practically all climate funding for dedicated USAID programmes in Africa\u00a0\u2014 programmes initiated under Barack Obama that were crucial to promoting climate resilience by arming African governments with tech, funds and support to fight climate change.<\/p>\n The programme\u2019s departure\u00a0\u2014 although it has shown signs of a recent revival under Biden\u00a0\u2014 marked years lost and contributed directly to the deepening humanitarian and environmental crisis that today impacts more than 110 million Africans.<\/p>\n But what happens in Africa will not stay in Africa. Climate change will intensify, not weaken, migration.\u00a0<\/p>\n For US patriots who want to see secure borders, they would do well to recognise that the only way to do so is to support African nations in dealing with climate change.<\/p>\n That\u2019s why Europeans should equally recognise that Trump\u2019s comeback is a warning signal.\u00a0<\/p>\n He represents a new and dangerous trans-Atlantic far-right movement exploiting mounting grievances due to economic challenges which are, ultimately, linked to our chronic dependence on fossil fuels\u00a0\u2014 which has locked us into an inflationary economic crisis.<\/p>\n Trumpist tactics are designed to deflect public attention from this reality, but they are being used across the EU by far-right parties ranging from Germany\u2019s AfD to Geert Wilders Freedom Party in the Netherlands. This requires a concerted fightback, not confused appeasement.<\/p>\n Both US and European progressive parties need to help voters realise that climate failure will set their futures ablaze. According to the Institute for Economics and Peace, business-as-usual will create as many as 1.2 billion climate refugees by 2050.<\/p>\n If Americans and Europeans are worried about migrants now, climate change will make this an insoluble challenge. That\u2019s why the EU must not make the same mistakes as President Biden on climate action.<\/p>\n Under Biden, we\u2019ve seen a record-breaking explosion in approvals for more oil and gas drilling permits \u2014 even more than Trump\u00a0\u2014 coinciding with a new, mammoth ad campaign promoting the expanded use of fossil fuels launched by the American Petroleum Institute.<\/p>\n This approach has come at odds with US statements during last year\u2019s UN COP28 climate summit in the UAE.\u00a0<\/p>\n The US publicly flirted with the idea of a phase-out of fossil fuels and signed up to the historic \"UAE Consensus\" agreement to transition away from fossil fuels and triple renewable energy capacity by 2030.<\/p>\n The US was also asleep at the wheel when COP28 broke new ground in operationalising a long overdue Loss and Damage Fund for rapid, disaster-relief support to the global South\u00a0\u2014 the US pledged just $17.5 million (\u20ac16.1m), paling embarrassingly in comparison to other contributions from Norway ($25m), Denmark ($50m) and the UAE ($100m).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
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More boots on the ground won't solve anything<\/h2>
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Faith-based organisations are taking the initiative<\/h2>
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