#Standup4HumanRights Seventy years ago today, the United Nations (UN) chose December 10th as international Human Rights Day and drafted the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. It is a day dedicated to reminding all of us that human rights should be enjoyed by everyone. APOPO’s work is connected to human rights because landmines deprived thousands of people of their fundamental rights, […]
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What APOPO does to tackle environmental exploitation from conflict. In 2001, November 6th was declared by the UN as the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. It is a day dedicated to raising awareness of the damaging impact that war and armed conflict has on the environment. APOPO’s
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Sokoine University of Agriculture tour project facilities and sites. On May 29th, the APOPO team in Morogoro, Tanzania was happy to host a high-level visit from the management team of Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) including the Vice Chancellor of Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Prof. Raphael Chibunda, accompanied by Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) Prof. Peter R. Gillah; Director for Postgraduate studies,
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So, why the new look? Our current branding has been going strong for almost two decades. Celebrating our 20th birthday last year provided a great opportunity to give a fresh feel to the whole APOPO brand. Don’t get us wrong, we loved our old logo and know many feel the same. That said, we believe the
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In 2019 APOPO U.S. transitioned leadership of its U.S. Board from Mari Kuraishi, the founder of Global Giving, to Kristen Davis the former Head of IT at the International New York Times. The whole APOPO family thanks Mari for her instrumental leadership in starting up and making APOPO U.S. a successful independent 501 c3 organization.
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MKUTA receives award for Community Leadership and Mobilization from the Stop TB Partnership. On the 23rd of October 2018, the Stop TB Partnership organized an event to present the 2018 Kochon Prize in The Hague, The Netherlands. The 2018 Kochon Prize was awarded to the Minister of Health of South Africa Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi and to
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By Robert Burny | Country Program Manager, APOPO TB Mozambique APOPO adopts GeneXpert technology for confirmation tests Last year, Mozambican health authorities started a equipping clinics with WHO endorsed diagnostic technology that in order to find more TB-positive patients at clinics. Called a GeneXpert machine, it involves molecular TB tests to detect TB in sputum samples
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Por la Dra. Miriam Schneider | Investigadora principal Introducción de los HeroRATS al entrenamiento alternativo Mejorar la precisión de la detección del olor es uno de los objetivos más importantes de las ratas detectoras de tuberculosis de APOPO. El equipo de Investigación y Desarrollo (I+D) de APOPO se ha embarcado recientemente en el desarrollo de
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By Christophe Cox | CEO APOPO Joy Milne visits the APOPO training center in Tanzania. “Joy Milne is better known as The woman who can smell Parkinson’s. In December, I saw Joy’s media appearances and learned about her collaboration with Edinburgh and Manchester Universities. At the 2018 People’s Postcode Lottery annual Charity Gala in Edinburgh, I met her
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