News tagged with congo
Health in low-income countries: Outsourcing and cash incentives may help
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Contracting private providers of healthcare services and giving cash incentives to patients are two strategies that have been proposed to increase access to healthcare in low income countries. In two new Cochrane Systematic ...
Scientists join forces to explain HIV spread in Central and East Africa
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Scientists studying biology and geography may seem worlds apart, but together they have answered a question that has defied explanation about the spread of the HIV-1 epidemic in Africa.
Endangered Ugandan gorillas join Facebook, MySpace
Sep 26, 2009 |
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(AP) -- He's hairy, his table manners are atrocious, and he wants to be your friend on Facebook.
Insecticide-treated bed nets reduce infant deaths in Democratic Republic of Congo
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Giving insecticide-treated bed nets to nearly 18,000 mothers at prenatal clinics in the Democratic Republic of Congo prevented an estimated 414 infant deaths from malaria, a study by University of North Carolina at Chapel ...
Chimpanzees develop 'specialized tool kits' to catch army ants
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Chimpanzees in the Congo have developed specialised 'tool kits' to forage for army ants, reveals new research published today in the American Journal of Primatology. This not only provides the first direct ...
Scientist says volcanic eruption in Congo imminent
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Scientists found evidence of intense volcanic activity - including tremors, pools of lava and plumes of smoke - at two volcanoes near a major city in eastern Congo, and said some residents had fled ...
Fledgling mantle plume may be cause of African volcano's unique lava
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nyiragongo, an active African volcano, possesses lava unlike any other in the world, which may point toward its source being a new mantle plume says a University of Rochester geochemist. The ...
Upping the ant-e: Clever chimps boost termite catch
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Chimpanzees not only use a tool to snare termites but are able to modify it as well, a skill that requires conceptual and cultural skills, scientists said on Wednesday.
Study finds most wars occur in Earth's richest biological regions
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Feb 20, 2009 |
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In a startling result, a new study published by the scientific journal Conservation Biology found that more than 80 percent of the world's major armed conflicts from 1950-2000 occurred in regions identified as the ...
Research uncovers surprising lion stronghold in war-torn central Africa
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Jan 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Times are tough for wildlife living at the frontier between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Armies are reportedly encamped in a national park and wildlife preserve on the ...
