LOCKING-IN CARBON, LOCKING-OUT LIVELIHOODS? ARTISANAL MINING AND REDD IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

"Creating" Rural Informality: The Case of Artisanal Gold Mining in Sub-Saharan Africa

A New Generation of Physicians in Sub-Saharan Africa?; Comment on “Non-physician Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Evolving Role of Physicians”

This commentary follows up on an editorial by Eyal and colleagues in which these authors discuss the implications of the emergence of non-physician clinicians (NPCs) on the health labour market for the education of medical doctors. We generally agree with those authors and we want to stress the importance of clarifying the terminology to describe these practitioners and of defining more formall...

Non-physician Clinicians – A Gain for Physicians’ Working in Sub-Saharan Africa; Comment on “Non-physician Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Evolving Role of Physicians”

The changing demands on the health sectors in low- and middle-income countries especially sub-Saharan African countries continue to challenge efforts to address critical shortages of the health workforce. Addressing these challenges have led to the evolution of “non-physician clinicians” (NPCs), that assume some physician roles and thus mitigate the continuing shortage of doctors in these count...

Locking out viral replication.

by a single A→U point mutation3. Both the benzimidazole derivative and the mutation reduce the production of viral proteins by approximately 80%, likely by preventing formation of the complete 80S eukaryotic ribosome. Hence this small molecule does not function by competitively inhibiting the interaction between the IRES and its target. Instead, it affects IRESdriven viral protein synthesis by ...

The Sub-Saharan Africa carbon balance

A. Bombelli, M. Henry, S. Castaldi, S. Adu-Bredu, A. Arneth, A. de Grandcourt, E. Grieco, W. L. Kutsch, V. Lehsten, A. Rasile, M. Reichstein, K. Tansey, U. Weber, and R. Valentini Department of Forest Environment and Resources (DISAFRI), University of Tuscia, via S. Camillo de Lellis, 01100 Viterbo, Italy Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, IRD, UR SeqBio, SupAgro, Bat. 12, 2 place Via...