abantu illnesses

agro-estates & HIV-AIDS

AIDS orphans
antiretroviral therapy
arsenic
artemisimin-compound therapy
bioaccumulation
chloroquine
convulsions & caterpillars (zumzuri; Nankan)
cumulative vulnerability
degedege (bird; Kiswahili)
edu-tainment
ethnocentricity
e-waste (Senegal) batteries as fishing net weights, Pb demand for car batteries, women sift for Pb, paint
(Accra, Ghana) computers, 10% usable, for iron and copper, children, soil/water contamn, air pollution (burn)
(Lagos) 2nd hand computer sales, electronic devices, brought in w/used cars
Africa Project: enhance governance, favorable SE condns for recycling in Africa,
Improved information on flows of e-products & e-waste imported to West African countries
Increase the capacity of partner countries to manage end-of-life e-equipment & e-waste
Investigate establishment of environmentally sound materials recovery operations
Enhance capacity to monitor & control transboundary movements of e-waste
Prevent illegal e-waste traffic
gender dynamics & HIV-AIDS
HIV as structural violence
HIV testing
IEC
industrial gold mining in Guinea
integrated vector management
IPT
ITN

inyoni (bird; Zulu)

Kenya
Lagos air pollution from traffic, NO, O3, SO3, CO, CO2, particulate matter
Hazards: Garbage, standing water, overcrowded, poor infrastruc, wealth disparity, old cars, Go Slow
Conservation: Public transport, recycling, improvisation (sell near railroad)
Lake Victoria
lead-based paint
LLIN
Minamata Convention - >50 ppm in head hair, Japan 1956, release of methyl mercury in wastewater, mad cats
Ataxia, numbness, muscle weakness, impaired senses, neuro disorders, insanity, paralysis, coma, death
Minamata Convention, Oct 2013
Artisanal/small-scale gold mining:
Each Party that has artisanal & small-scale gold mining & processing subject to this Article within its
territory shall take steps to:
reduce, and where feasible eliminate, the use of mercury and mercury compounds in, and the
emissions and releases to the environment of mercury from, such mining and processing.
Minamata Convention on Mercury
At the fifth session of the intergovernmental negotiating committee to prepare a global legally binding
instrument on mercury, held in Geneva from 13-18 January 2013, Governments successfully completed
their negotiations. They agreed to the text of the Minamata Convention on Mercury-
As of 16 March 2014, 96 country signatures
Ghana has not yet signed on
mercury gold mining, contaminated fish, skin-lightening soap (illegal, still used), Minamata

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Mercury poisoning
T-Hg (inorganic)
Direct contact w/mercury, by breathing mercury fumes from amalgamating gold
Mercury in skin whitening soaps
Methyl mercury (organic)
Indirect contact w/mercury through food-chain
Fish
Measurement of levels in:
Hair
Urine

PEPFAR
Plasmodium falciparum
PMTCT
pollution Lagos, traffic, w/o catalytic converters, nervous system, soft tissue/bone damage, non-revers

nitrous oxides = increased respiratory illness

CO = combine w/Hglobin, reduces O available = decrease fetal wt, increase brain damage/morty
O3/CO2 = resp problems
Hydrocarbons = carcinogenic

E-waste
primary health care
pua vs. malaria
quacks
retorts
sangoma
scaling-up
sex for fish
small-scale gold mining & water pollution
social marketing
socks are for feet
Soul City
stigma
Tanzania
theatre for development
Zambia