Reaching 90–90–90 in rural communities in East Africa

Eye care in rural communities: reaching the unreached in Sunderbans

Good health is dependent on having services which are accessible and affordable. The Sunderbans in West Bengal, India, is a conglomeration of 106 islands, 52 of which are inhabited, and the remaining of which are home to India’s famous tigers and the world’s biggest mangroves. Small boats are the main mode of transport. Sunderbans has the most deprived and marginalised population in India, with...

The Effects of Hiv/aids on Rural Communities in East Africa: a Twenty Year Perspective

This paper examines the long-term effects of HIV and AIDS on rural society in North Western Tanzania and South Western Uganda. We begin by describing work carried out in the 1980s and early 1990s that looked at the implications of the epidemic for individual households and broader rural economies. Much of that research predicted progressive declines in agricultural production, with dire consequ...

Rural Electrification with Renewable Energies in East Africa

Rural Electrification in East Africa It Takes a Village

ieee power & energy magazine july/august 2013 1540-7977/13/$31.00©2013IEEE A Access to electric energy is An “indispensable element of sustainable human development,” according to the international energy Agency. Without access to modern, commercial energy, poor countries can be trapped in a vicious circle of poverty, social instability, and underdevelopment. About 1.6 billion people—more than ...

Host-Parasite Associations in Small Mammal Communities in Semiarid Savanna Ecosystems of East Africa.

Despite the established importance of rodents as reservoirs of vector-borne zoonoses in East Africa, there is relatively limited information regarding the infestation parameters and host associations of ectoparasites that vector many such pathogens among small mammals in this region. Between 2009 and 2013, small mammals were live-trapped in the semiarid savanna of Kenya. A subset of these indiv...