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South Sudan must turn its back on elitist education
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:55:10 +0100 | SciDev.Net
South Sudan's prosperity depends on more public universities serving more students — and focussing on S&T, not humanities, says John A. Akec. (Source: SciDev.Net)

What ‘Uniting to combat tropical diseases’ will really require
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:26:00 +0100 | MSF News
By Unni Karunakara, physician and international president of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) (Originally published Jan. 31 in the Huffington Post UK online) Performing a spinal tap under field conditions is nerve-wracking. Sticking a needle into someone’s spine to extract spinal fluid is painful and risky and that’s just the doctor’s perspective. But it’s also something that our doctors have to do every day as part of routine tests for advanced-stage sleeping sickness. Try too, then, to imagine the experience from the patient’s side. When I was responsible for MSF’s sleeping sickness programs in Republic of Congo, even the prospect of the test was sometimes too much and people took to their heels rather than undergo the procedure. So we at MSF welcome the commitments made a...

Outbreak of Nodding Syndrome SpreadsOutbreak of Nodding Syndrome Spreads
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:13:43 +0100 | Medscape Today Headlines
The condition has now been seen in South Sudan; CDC recommends ivermectin and antiepileptic therapy, as well as enhanced surveillance. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)

UN scales up food assistance for more than 80,000 people in South Sudan
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 | UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security
The United Nations World Food Programme announced today that it will scale up its assistance to reach 80,000 people affected by the recent escalation of ethnic violence in South Sudan's Jonglei state. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)

Removal of sudan dyes from water with C(18)-functional ultrafine magnetic silica nanoparticles.
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 | Talanta
In this study, the new C(18)-functionalized ultrafine magnetic silica nanoparticles (C(18)-UMS NPs) were successfully synthesized and applied for extraction of sudan dyes in water samples based on the magnetic solid-phase extraction (MSPE). The extraction and concentration were carried out in one step by blending C(18)-UMS NPs and water samples. The sudan dyes adsorbed C(18)-UMS NPs were isolated from the matrix easily with an external magnetic field. After desorption the quantitation of sudan dyes was done by ultra fast liquid chromatography (UFLC). Satisfactory extraction recovery can be obtained with only 50mgC(18)-UMS NPs. The effects of experimental parameters, including the amount of the nanoparticles, extraction time, pH value, desorption solvent, volume of desorption solvent and de...

Nodding Syndrome — South Sudan, 2011
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:16:22 +0100 | CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)

Nodding syndrome - South Sudan, 2011.
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 | MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl...
Authors: Abstract In November 2010, the Ministry of Health of the proposed nation of South Sudan requested CDC assistance in investigating a recent increase and geographic clustering of an illness resulting in head nodding and seizures. The outbreak was suspected to be nodding syndrome, an unexplained neurologic condition characterized by episodes of repetitive dropping forward of the head, often accompanied by other seizure-like activity, such as convulsions or staring spells. The condition predominantly affects children aged 5-15 years and has been reported in South Sudan from the states of Western and Central Equatoria and in Northern Uganda and southern Tanzania. Because of visa and security concerns, CDC investigators did not travel to South Sudan until May 2011. On arrival,...

Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:36:22 +0100 | Red Cross Chat
This Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up is courtesy of Scott Waggoner, from Cross Blog: Award-winning Red Cross news and views from Oregon and beyond Welcome to the Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you. It’s a non-comprehensive sampling of the larger and/or more intriguing aspects of our global work… SYRIA: Violence in Syria continues with one of the latest casualties being the secretary-general of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, Dr. Abd-al-Razzaq Jbeiro. Dr. Jbeiro was shot in a vehicle clearly marked with the red crescent emblem after attending meetings at Syrian Arab Red Crescent headquarters in Damascus. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent, IFRC, and ICRC are renewing calls for an e...

DRC: Majority of People Living with HIV Denied Treatment
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:57:00 +0100 | MSF News
DRC 2011 © Robin Meldrum Michel Kongawi, head lab tech, prepares a CD4 test in the laboratory at Lubutu hospital, Maniema Province. KINSHASA, JANUARY 25, 2012 – The vast majority of people living with the ---- virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are deprived of lifesaving treatment, due to a withdrawal of international donor support and the lack of national prioritization of the crisis, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. The number of HIV-positive people in DRC is currently estimated at more than one million, 350,000 of whom could benefit from antiretroviral (ARV) treatment. However, only 44,000 people are currently receiving treatment, translating into a 1...