Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Container AIDS labs could work across Africa

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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -

A South African company's idea to convert shipping containers into high-tech AIDS laboratories should be copied across Africa, an executive for its U.S. medical equipment supplier said Tuesday.

A lack of quality laboratory services in the world's poorest continent hampers the battle against HIV/AIDS, with the sub-Saharan Africa region hardest hit by the global pandemic which kills millions each year.

"I think its a very exciting concept and I think it is one that can be replicated across Africa," Krista Thompson, general manager for global health at Becton Dickinson, told Reuters on a site visit to Gugulethu township near Cape Town.

Gugulethu is the site of the first containerised AIDS laboratory from Toga Labs, a private South African molecular.....continued below

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diagnostics laboratory. BD supplies equipment to the lab.

With its multitude of tin shacks, poor water supplies and limited electricity access, Gugulethu is typical of poor settlements across Africa.

Established in 2004, the Gugulethu lab provides testing for about 4,500 people on antiretroviral drugs, and is one of 10 operating in South Africa.

Africa's strongest economy has one of the world's highest AIDS burdens with an estimated 1 in 5 infected out of a population of 47 million.

"Its very important for the use of drugs to have good diagnostics and laboratory services to go along with that. First we need to know who to treat and then we need to know whether the treatment was working or not," Thompson said.

Des Martin, a director at Toga, told Reuters: "You can't have antiretroviral programs without laboratory support, its dangerous. So this provides the means for people who live very far away to have standard of care on their doorstep."

He said diagnostics could be extended to include tests for tuberculosis, diabetes and other diseases.

The United States President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief was supporting another five planned container labs in South Africa, two in Malawi, two in Zambia and one in Liberia, Martin said. Each fully equipped lab costs in the region of $250,000 (152,000 pounds).

The Gugulethu lab, run by a medical technologist and an administrator, processes an estimated 11,000 blood samples a year, Martin said.

"We believe this is a model for the developing world in resource constrained settings," he said.

(Reporting by Wendell Roelf)

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Kwa hisani ya kp
(1)Dar yazidi kupendeza hili ni jengo la NMB Dar-es-salaam zamani foreign branch kona ya barabara ya Jamuhuri street na Azikiwe Avenue.










(2)Hili ni jengo Benjamini Mkapa tower wakati wa magharibi linavyoonekana sie tuliotoka Dar muda mrefu tunaweza kupotea.Picha kwa hisani ya Issamichuzi blog

Monday, July 20, 2009


picha 1(1) Jackson career record sales tally is believed to be more than 70 million.He also received 13 Grammy award
(3)4)Jackson c.Rowe gives custody of the children to Jackson.He also had a third child by an unknown woman.There was an outcry in november2002 when he was pictured dangling his young son ,Prince Michae 11 out of Berlin Hotel


(2)
(2)In may 1994 Jackson married Lisa Marie presely,Daughter of singer,Elvis,They separate after 9 month with Presely latr saying she was”Not proud’of marriage











(1)Tributes were left at the O2 after Jackson's death


Jackson fans gather at O2 arena

Michael Jackson impersonators are among the crowd
Michael Jackson fans from all over the world congregated at London's O2 arena, where the star had been due to begin his run of 50 concerts on Monday.
Fan sites and Facebook groups had been encouraging fans to bring candles and flowers for the vigil.
About 600 people visited the venue, adding messages to a wall of tributes and conducting Jackson sing-a-longs. Others sat in quiet contemplation.
It was a "light-hearted, celebratory" mood, says BBC reporter Michael Osborn.
Fans held a minute's silence at 1830 BST to mark the time when the doors to the concert would have opened.
"I've come here to celebrate his life and I want to feel a bit closer," Alison Pyman, 27, from Cleethorpes told the BBC.
"We've been reminiscing and sharing memories with everyone. When more people arrive there will quite a party atmosphere."
Thirty-one-year-old Jesper Hauton was one of the fans who had been expecting to see his hero on stage.
"We should have been going to the concert but we're standing here instead," he said. "It doesn't make any sense."
Mr Hauton, who lives in Copenhagen, Denmark, will be in London for a week, having bought tickets for the first five of Jackson's 50 comeback shows.
"We're here for grieving, but the main thing is a celebration of Michael," he added.
'Last masterpiece'
Following Jackson's death on 25 June, floral tributes, cards and messages have been left outside the O2.
Another London location where a shrine to the singer has built up is the Lyric Theatre in the West End, home of Jackson tribute show Thriller Live.
Jackson's string of This Is It shows completely sold out shortly after going on sale in March.

Tributes were left at the O2 after Jackson's death
The singer told fans that the concerts would be his final performances in London.
Following his death, footage of his rehearsals in Los Angeles just days before he died was released.
While no concerts are currently scheduled to replace Jackson's performances, organisers are discussing the possibility of staging a show using the production for the This Is It concerts.
"I think at some point we'll show Michael's last masterpiece, This Is It, to the world," AEG president Randy Phillips told Billboard.
Phillips added that 29 August - which would have been Jackson's 51st birthday - would be an ideal time for the event, but he was unsure if it would be ready in time.

BEST-SELLING AUTHOR McCOURT DIES

BREAKING NEWS

Best-selling author McCourt dies

Author Frank McCourt
McCourt contracted meningitis while being treated for melanoma

Frank McCourt, author of best-seller Angela's Ashes, has died of cancer in a New York hospice.

The 78-year-old Irish-American writer was suffering from meningitis and had recently been treated for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.

Angela's Ashes, a memoir of McCourt's childhood in Ireland, sold millions of copies and won the Pulitzer Prize.

Before the book's 1996 publication, McCourt was a New York high school teacher for 30 years.

Quoted by the New York Times newspaper, Susan Moldow of McCourt's publisher Scribner said the cause of his death, on Sunday afternoon, was metastatic melanoma.

'Epic of woe'

Born in New York, McCourt travelled to Ireland during the Great Depression with his parents at an early age.

Angela's Ashes provides a graphic description of his childhood in abject poverty in the slums of the Irish city of Limerick.
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Described by its author as an "epic of woe", the book was made into a Hollywood film in 1999 starring Emily Watson and Robert Carlyle.

The BBC's Matt McGrath, an admirer of Frank McCourt's work, says it shone a light on a dark period of Ireland's social history.

His other works include 'Tis and Teacher Man, which both draw on his later life in New York.


WITH CORTESY OF BBC-LONDON

JACKSON'S CONTRIBUTION TO MUSIC

JACKSON'S CONTRIBUTION TO MUSIC
Michael Jackson

Music journalist Paul Gambaccini looks at the impact Michael Jackson, who has died aged 50, had on the music world.
Michael Jackson had two musical peaks: the first with The Jackson 5. Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown, ordered his producers and writers to come up with three number ones to launch the group and they actually had four number ones with their first four singles.

They were the template for the boy bands that followed - The Osmonds, who already existed as The Osmond Brothers, copied them.
Michael reached his second peak with Quincy Jones with the trilogy of albums of Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad.

Thriller, interestingly enough - since it is the best selling album in the world - is likely to remain so because people now get their music from the internet, so its unlikely that any album will even sell 50m again.

These were great achievements artistically as well as commercially, and Michael was the first of the great American male video stars in the US.

I Want You Back was the record that bowled over the US - for an unknown kid group to go to number one was pretty amazing and people were asking who was this 11-year-old guy who could dance so well and sing so vibrantly.


When it came to putting on a live show he paid attention to every detail and executed his ideas brilliantly. He is still to me the best showman ever
We subsequently learned that their father had been drilling them for years and so they weren't as new as we'd thought, but nonetheless everyone was impressed by Michael and he instantly became a world star.

Billie Jean was very important as it was the song that was the first great American video. There had been great British videos, particularly The Boomtown Rats' I Don't Like Mondays and Bohemian Rhapsody, but Billie Jean made it de rigueur for American artists to make videos as well and that changed everything.

Thriller also spawned that famous video which so many people have bought as well as seen.

When he did the Moonwalk with Billie Jean on the Motown 25 special on TV he won an Emmy award. It was something that looked impossible - he practiced it so much. He learned from Fred Astaire and James Brown and it was something that caught the fancy of people around the world.

I had a conversation with the late John Peel and he agreed that even though Michael Jackson's style of music wasn't his favourite, he was the greatest showman in pop history.

He was not necessarily the greatest record maker and not the best writer because he didn't write many of his hits, but when it came to putting on a live show he paid attention to every detail and executed his ideas brilliantly. He is still to me the best showman ever.

As the years and decades go by, people forget or disregard personal problems. To use the example of an earlier music legend who went his way - Judy Garland - we nowadays just think of the great songs and films and we don't think of her drug problems.

And within a few generations, Michael Jackson will be a great recording artist and that's it. There won't be more than a footnote about the scandals.

JACKSON X-WIFE IN LEGAL ACTION

JACKSON X-WIFE IN LEGAL ACTION
Debbie Rowe

Debbie Rowe had two children with Jackson

Michael Jackson's ex-wife Debbie Rowe has sued a woman over reports claiming she was willing to give up parental rights to her children for money.

Ms Rowe has accused Rebecca White of defamation, invasion of privacy and infliction of emotional distress in the legal action filed in Los Angeles.

It is claimed Ms White passed Ms Rowe's e-mails to the media about not wanting the two children she had with Jackson.

Legal papers also allege that Ms White fabricated the e-mails.

'Close friend'

According to court documents, the women never exchanged e-mails concerning Jackson, his family or their children.

Ms Rowe said she has not e-mailed Ms White since Jackson died last month.

Ms White, who could not immediately be reached for comment, claimed to be a "close friend" of Ms Rowe.

It is not clear how much Ms Rowe is seeking in damages.

She was expected to attend a custody hearing concerning Jackson's three children on Monday.

She is the mother of Prince Michael, 12, and daughter Paris, 11. Seven-year-old Prince Michael II, known as Blanket, was born to an unknown surrogate.

Ms Rowe was not mentioned in Jackson's will, which named his mother, Katherine Jackson, as their guardian.

Earlier this week the New York Post newspaper reported that Ms Rowe had been paid $4m (£2.4m) to waive parental rights to her children.

In a letter to the newspaper, her lawyer Eric George called the claims "blatant falsehoods".

Friday, July 17, 2009

WACHEZI WAPYA WA SIMBA


Wachezaji wa kigeni wa Simba toka Uganda, Emanuel Okwi na Joseph Owino walipotua jijini Dar es Salaam jana tayari kujiunga na klabu hiyo kwa msimu mpya wa Ligi Kuu uliopangwa kuanza Agosti 23.Kwa HISANI YA MWANASPOT

"'In the engine room of the Wonder Wheel in Coney Island, a mere 60-horsepower engine moves 200 tons of steel. It's a low-maintenance system, with the engine taking a little oil daily." From the NY Times.
Huu ni mwinuko maaarufu wa Oldubvai(Oldupai)sehemu ambayo ilitokea tetemeko na kuzama miaka elfu kadhaa iliyopita na ndio sehemu ambayo fuvu la binadamu wa kwanza alipatikana na Dr Leakey mwaka 1954.hivi karibuni mwezi wa nane itafanyika bonge la jubilii ya miaka 50 itakayofanywa na Olap pamoja na vyuo vikuu mbalimbali vinavyofanya utafiti katika eneo hili.






Hizi ni picha mbalimbali za eneo maarufu duniani sehemu ambapo Dr Leakey akishirikiana na mkewe walifanikiwa kugundua masalia ya mifupa ya Binadamu wa kwanza 1954 na kuifanya sehemu hii kuwa maarufu dunia nzima na kukusanya watafiti toka vyuo vikuu mbalimbali duniani.Na hivi karibuni mwezi wa 8 Olap kwa kushirikiana na wadau wengine watafanya jubilee ya miaka 50 mwezi huu ujao wa nane kama kawaida Dr Njau na wataalamu wote watakuwepo kuhakikisha usiku huo wa jubilee unafanikiwa























Hii Ni sehemu ambayo Dr Leakey pamoja na mkewe walipofanya utafiti na kungundua sehemu aliyekuwepo binadamu wa kwanza mwaka 1954 hadi leo sehemu hii ya (Oldupai)Olduva imekuwa maarufu dunia nzima ikiwa na Geologist toka vyuo vikuu mbalimbali duniani kwa ajili ya utafiti.Hapa wakifanya moja ya kumbukumbu iliyofanywa na Olap.

Thursday, July 16, 2009


MAMBO YA CHIPS DUME
mama huyu akikaanga mihogo mjini Arusha kwa ajili ya kuwauzia wateja wake kutokana na biahara hii mama huyu amesema kuwa inamsaidia kujikimu hapa mjini

Askari wa usalama barabarani akimuhoji dereva wagari aina ya Datsun kwa kupakia mzigo mkubwa wa mikungu ya ndizi ikiingizwa mkoani Arusha toka Kilimanjaro bila kujali usalama wa barabarani,uzidishaji wa mzigo katika magari imeshamiri kwa kiasi kikubwa mkoani hapa.

Watoto hawa wa okon One akiwa jalalani kutafuta mabaki ya uchafu au vitu vilivyotupwa kama vile vipisi vya nono kwa ajili kuuza kuweza kujipatia kipato

Hawa ni watotot katika eneo la Sanawari wakipanga kuni tayari kwa kuuza,watotot wengi kama hawa hukossa nafasi ya kuhudhulia shuleni na kufanya kazi za kifamilia ili kujiongeea kipato

Tuesday, July 14, 2009



Hawa ni watotot wanaoishi karibu na makumbusho ya kale la bonde la Olduvai katika njia panda ya kwenda Serengti wakisubiri watalii kwa ajili ya kuomba chochote.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Hii ni stendi ya mkoa wa arusha invyoonkana toka juu wanachi anaitaka Manispaa ya Arusha kuzungshia ukuta stendi hii kutokana na usalama wa abiria kuwa mdogo kutokana na muingiliana na watu wafanyabiashara na wasfiri.

(picha/gebo Arajiga)
Kamanda wa polisi mkoa wa Arusha Baslio matei akionysha silaha aina ya AK-47 zilizokamatwa toka kwa majambazi katika eneo la wilaya ya Ngorongoro zilizokuwa zikitumika katika matukio ya kiuhalifu.

Amiri jeshi mkuu wa majeshi ya ulinzi na usalama Rais jakaya M.Kikwete akiwa na mkuu wa majeshi Jenrali Davis Mwamunyange,waziri wa ulinzi(mwenye suti0na maofisa mbalimbali wa JWTZ katika mahafali ya kuwatunuku maofisa wapya vyeo katika chuo cha kijeshi cha Monduli.
(Picha/Gebo Arajiga)

Hii ni miili ya majambazi 14 wa Kenya waliouwawa mjini mjini moshi wakati wakiwa ktik mpango wa kuvmia benki na kuvmia gereza l Ngarang mbpo mtuhumiwa mwenzao alikuwa anashikiliwa.hivi ni kweli hawa walijibishana na polisi kwa kuruhian risasi/swali wadau.

(picha/gebo Arajiga)

Haya wadau katika
ziara hiyo alifuatana na mke wak ambay kitaaluma ni mwali je/hpo unadhani anmweleza kitu gani mwanafunzi huyo.jibu lipo kenu.

(picha/
Gebo Arajiga)

jamani ndugu zangu wadau hbu jaribuni kuweka maneno hapa mnadhani mh rais alikuwa akimweleza kitu gani mwanafunzi huyu.

(Picha/Gebo arajiga)

ONGEZEKO LA WATOTO W MITAANI_BOMU LINALOSUBIRI KULIPUKA

Na Gebo Arajiga,Arusha

Arusha ni miongoni mwa mikoa 26 ya Tanzania iliyoko kaskazini mwa Tanzania ikiwa imejaliwa kuwa na madini mbalimbali,hifadhi za wanyama ambazo kila mwaka watalii wengi huja kutembelea na kushuhudia maajabu hayo baadhi ya mbuga hizo ni Hifadhi ya Manyara ambapo ni sehemu pekee ya ndege aina ya flamingo hutaga mayai yao,Olduvai gorge sehemu alipovumbuliwa binadamu wa kwanza na Ngorongoro crater moja kati ya maajabu saba ya dunia aidha pia mkoa huu ni makao makuu ya jumuia ya Afrika Mashariki(EAC) lakini wakazi wa mkoa huu wengi wao ni wakipato cha chini.

Ilifikia hatua hata rais wa wa zamani wa marekani Bill Cliton alipoitembelea Tanzania aliifananisha hali ya mkoa huu kuwa ni Geneva ya Afrika lakini kutokana na sifa yote hiyo bado mkoa huu unasumbuliwa na tatizo la watoto wa mitaani au watoto wa Utuli na umaskini wa kipato miongoni mwa jamii.


Ingawa mkoa huu kuwa na vivutio vingi vya utalii na kuingizia fedha nyingi za kigeni lakini hali ya kipato kwa wananchi bado ni mbaya hali ya umaskini katika mkoa huu ipo hatua chache kutoka katikati ya mji katika maeneo yenye msongamano wa watu wengi kama vile Ngarenaro,Esso,Unga Ltd ambapo biashara ya kujiuza na matumizi ya madawa ya kulevya imekuwa kitu cha kawaida ili kujiongezea kipato.


Lakini pindi unapofika kwa mara ya kwanza mkoa hapa utashangaa na hali utakayokuta nayo watoto wanaozurura na kuomba fedha kwa kila mtu anayekutana naye,barabara zake ni finyu na mbovu zisizofaa .


Tatizo la watoto wa mitaani ambao wengi wao ni wenye umri wa kuwepo shuleni lakini kutokana na matatizo yanayowakabili wameshindwa na kuamua kuja mjini kutafuta kipato ili waweze kujikomboa kiuchumi.

WANANCHI mbalimbali wa mjini Arusha ambao walihojiwa na Jambo leo wameitaka Manispaa ya Arusha kufanya jitihada za makusudi kuwaondoa watoto wa mitaani waliozagaa katikati ya mji wa Arusha na kuwa kero kubwa wananchi kwa kuwaibia mali zao pamoja na matumizi makubwa ya madawa ya kulevya pamoja na gundi ambayo huyafanya hadharani bila kificho na kuwarudisha makwao au watunzwe na kupata nafasi ya kusoma.



Wakizungumza na mwandishi wa habari hizi baadhi ya wananchi hao walisema kuwa watoto hao wamekuwa na tabia ya kuomba fedha kwa wapita njia na pindi wanaponyimwa wamekuwa wakiwatukana na kuwachukulia kitu chochote kinguvu na kukimbia huku wakitishia kwa bisibisi na visu.



Walter Taluka mkazi wa Sakina mjini hapa alisema kuwa tatizo la watoto wa mitaani kwa sasa mkoani hapa linazidi kushamiri kutokana na hali ngumu ya kimaisha katika familia zao”Hii ni aibu kubwa sana kwa mkoa kama huu wenye utajiri wa kila aina kuwa na idadi kubwa ya watoto wa mitaani huku wakihusishwa na matumizi ya madawa ya kulevya.



Naye mkazi wa kijiji cha Kiranyi Nashuma Samweli diwani mstaafu alisema kuwa “imefika muda sasa serikali ya mkoa ikaingilia kati kuwanusuru watoto hawa ambao wanaharibika kwa matumizi ya madawa ya kulevya na kutegemea kuomba ili waweze kuendesha maisha yao wengi wao hubakana haya mambo yapo katika makundi yao sasa hapa tunalea taifa gani jamani wachukuliwe na kurudishwa makwao au serikali ichuku jukumu la kuwalea katika vituo”alisema diwani huyo mstaafu



Wengi wa watoto hao ni wenye umri kati ya miaka kumi hadi kumi na nane umri ambao wanapaswa kuwepo shuleni lakini kutokana na umaskini wa familia na wao kuamua kukimbia nyumbani kuja mjini na kujitafutia ridhiki.



Moja wa watoto wa mitaani James John anasema kuwa yeye anatokea katika mji mdogo wa Magugu mkoani Manyara na aliamua kuja mjini kujitafutia maisha kwa kuchoka hali ngumu ya maisha waliyokuwa nayo wazazi wake na kipigo alichokuwa akipewa na baba yake mzazi pindi anapokuwa amelewa.



"Niliamua kukimbia nyumbani kuepuka adhabu za mara kwa mara alizokuwa akinipa baba na kuamua kuja hapa Arusha”alisema mtoto huyo.



Tatizo la watoto wa mitaani katika mkoa wa Arusha linazidi kushamiri mkoani hapa huku watoto hao wakijihusisha na matumizi ya bangi,gundi na madawa mengine ya kulevya.



Watoto hao hulala katika mabaraza ya maduka makubwa yaliyopo katikati ya mji na wengine hulala katika eneo la stendi ndogo ya magari na ndani ya makaravati ya barabarani.



MWISHO.