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Tanzania: AI Tool Used To Predict Mosquitos’ Age
Africa had about 95 per cent of the world’s 247 million cases of malaria in 2021
Researchers tested whether an AI tool could predict ages...
Investors pull funding from African Academy of Sciences, research crisis unfolds
Major African research projects have been disrupted after international donors withdrew funding from the continent’s science academy due to a long-running governance crisis, a SciDev.Net investigation...
Tanzania: Using bed nets in early life ‘ups survival into adulthood’
Children who sleep more often under insecticide-treated bed nets have more than 40 per cent higher likelihood of surviving into adulthood than their counterparts who...
Health workers ‘given incentives’ to push baby formula
‘Pervasive, misleading and aggressive’ marketing of powdered baby milk is damaging child health across middle- and lower-middle-income countries, a UN report has warned.
Ditching the use of...
Kenya lockdowns ‘led to pregnancies, school dropouts’
Using lockdowns to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic significantly increased teenage pregnancies and school dropouts, a study finds.
Researchers say they conducted the...
UDSM researchers to receive science communication training
Almost 100 researchers and PhD students at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania are next in line to take part in a...