UAHDP NEWS FLASH !
Replacing biomass and kerosene cookstoves used throughout the developing world with clean-burning ethanol stoves may reduce hypertension and cardiovascular risk in pregnant women, according to new research published online, ahead of print in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
In “Randomized Controlled Ethanol Cookstove Intervention and Blood Pressure in Pregnant Nigerian Women,” researchers report that the frequency of developing hypertension and diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number) were decreased in pregnant women who cooked with ethanol, rather than with traditional cookstoves fueled by wood or kerosene. Systolic blood pressure (the top number) did not change significantly.
“Although previous studies found that exposure to household air pollution increased the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, no randomized, controlled trial had investigated whether clean-burning fuel would reduce the incidence of hypertension in pregnant women,” said lead study author Christopher O. Olopade, MD, MPH, professor of medicine and family director of international programs at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine.
Dr. Olopade and his colleagues enrolled 324 pregnant women living in Ibadan, Nigeria, in their study. Women who smoked or lived with a smoker or who cooked for a living were excluded from the study.
“The
results of our study add to the evidence that vulnerable populations,
especially pregnant women, would gain important health benefits from
stoves that burn clean fuels.”
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Film Show Festival
27th October: Water, Water Everywhere: Paean to a Vanishing Resource, film screening and discussion-- start 11am till 2;45pm
28th of October: Water, Water Everywhere: Paean to a Vanishing Resource, film screening and discussion -- start 11.30am till 3;30pm
29th October: Orphanages Visitation with foods items, cloths educational materials. TO MAKE YOUR SUPPORT/DONATION TO US FROM USA, UK, AUSTRALIA, ASIA, KINDLY USE THIS LINK; http://vad.aidmatrix.org/vadxml.cfm?driveid=5273 OR COPY AND PASTE INTO YOUR BROWSING PAGE. OUR NAME ( UPEZ ) UPEZ AFRICAN HUMANITARIAN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.
Other event are: Water, Water Everywhere: Paean to a Vanishing
Resource will be on the road through 2017.
2012
August 1 to December 31 - The Museums at Los Gatos, California, www.museumsoflosgatos.org/site
October 27 & 28 - Upez African Humanitarian Development Project, Lagos, Nigeria, uahdp.yolasite.com
TBA -- Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado, www.naropa.edu
2014
June 1 to August 24 -- El Paso Museum of Art, Texas, www.elpasoartmuseum.org
2015
April 10 to May 24 - Alexei von Schlippe Gallery at the University of Connecticut-Avery Point, averypointarts.uconn.edu
July-December, TBA -- Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia, www.hmoa.org
Community Rebirth Initiative (CRI) ngo, is currently seeking for individuals with philanthropist character to kindly identify with us for the following position, Patron, Matron, Volunteer members, additional board members, regional co-coordinators, etc. contact us for more details.
The Upez African Humanitarian Development projects are currently seeking partnership/affiliation with water for people, the partnership in ongoing and we have also completed and submitted a requested details to the WFP coordinator Tara willis on Saturday 6th feb 2010 for evaluation and action. This integrated water bore-holes project area are located in Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Rwanda, Malawi and Sierra Leonean....... for further detail on this project's contact UAHDP email; info_uahdp@yahoo.com
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November 22, 2011 – UNITED Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) chief, water, sanitation, and hygiene section, Mr Vinod Alkari, has revealed that, Nigeria loses N455 billion annually or 1.3 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) due to poor sanitation.
Similarly, he added that, 33 million people defecate in the open while only a third of the country’s population have access to improved sanitation, with high morbidity and mortality as direct consequences.
UNICEF chief, Alkari, stated this on Monday at the opening ceremony of the third national roundtable conference on Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in Nigeria, held in Katsina State.
Alkari, represented by Mr Bisi Agberemi, explained that, due to sanitation related diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery and typhoid, 728 deaths were recorded from January to November, this year in 197 local government areas in 25 states in the country.
According to him, improving the disposal of human excreta and stopping open defecation can drastically reduce the disease burden caused by sanitation related diseases and contribute to economic transformation of the country.
The UNICEF chief, who expressed his organisation’s commitment to sanitation development, said “UNICEF will continue to partner with relevant stakeholders to implement other high impact and cost effective interventions to reduce sanitation related diseases.”
He, however, commended the Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Katsina State government and the National Task Group on Sanitation for organising the conference and hoped that, participants would make positive contributions to achieve the set targets for sanitation in the country.
