#DadaTeresa

African Woman; Advocating for peace around the World.

[GIJN Africa @gijnAfrica]

📢 @defronteramedia invites applications for the Defrontera newsroom fellowship.

This is one year full time employment for graduates of science and medical fields interested in reporting about science and public health in Kenya.

Apply by August 31. https://t.co/WRzWaSgLTr

[Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Muzukulu wa Bityo @CKyobutungi]

Something intriguing I found this week:
A school in Nyamira County, Kenya has recorded zero teenage pregnancies in 5 years among nearly 1,000 learners down from 1-2 cases every year before. The turning point came in June 2024, when Grade 7 students were asked to write anonymous notes about issues affecting their wellbeing.
https://t.co/axubtoObbL

[#DadaTeresa @jwaguma]

@maura_winnie @AlionyaRoseline @AokoOtieno_ Ha ha ha ha....you are not nice...

[#DadaTeresa @jwaguma]

@kilonzoNice @LiaMarta33 Ebu share plug sis?

[#DadaTeresa @jwaguma]

@Teya477750 @Njeriwamwea84 @Benson_Mwiti_25 @MillicentOmanga Isnt it sad that all she has is money?

[Sann @san_x_m]

A mammogram missed her cousin's breast cancer. By the time it was found it was too late, and she died.

About 6 months later a second woman in the same family was diagnosed. She died as well.

The woman watching this happen was an artificial intelligence researcher.

Her name is Geetha Manjunath.

She grew up in Bengaluru. She took her bachelor's degree in computer science at UVCE, then a master's and a doctorate at the Indian Institute of Science, where she was a gold medallist.

Her first job was at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, where she was part of the team that built India's first commercial supercomputer in the 1990s.

She spent 17 years at Hewlett Packard Labs as a principal research scientist. She then became a lab director at Xerox Research in India, heading their data analytics research.

Then the 2 deaths in her family happened, and she went and read about the disease.

What she found is worth knowing.

In India, roughly half the women diagnosed with breast cancer die of it. Her own words are blunt. Every alternate lady detected with breast cancer is dying.

The reason is almost never the treatment. It is that the disease is found too late.

Mammograms are the standard test. They use x-rays, they are expensive, they are uncomfortable, they need a large fixed machine, and there is a specific medical problem with them. In younger women the breast tissue is denser, and dense tissue and tumours both show up white on the scan. So the tumour can hide.

That is what happened to her cousin.

She started working on it in her spare time, on weekends, with a small team, while still employed.

The idea was to use thermal imaging instead. A cancer uses more energy than normal tissue and the blood flow around it increases, so the area is slightly warmer. A thermal camera can see that heat pattern from a distance, without touching the body and without any radiation.

The hard part is reading it. Heat patterns are messy. That is where her actual expertise came in. She trained machine learning software to interpret them.

Their first test was with a medical college in Manipal, using thermal images of 72 cancer patients.

It worked.

In 2016 she left her job and started a company with a former colleague, Nidhi Mathur. They called it Niramai, which stands for Non Invasive Risk Assessment with Machine Intelligence, and which in Sanskrit also means free from illness.

The test needs no radiation, no touch, no pain, and no one else in the room. It works on women of any age and any breast density. The equipment is portable, so it can be taken to villages.

More than 400,000 women have now been screened across over 250 locations in India. More than 2,000 cancers have been found.

The technology has regulatory clearance in the United States and in Europe. She holds 14 American patents.

She has one line she repeats.

Nobody needs to die of breast cancer, if you can catch it early enough.

[#DadaTeresa @jwaguma]

@EstherKazungu @mbayathahoncho Lol...wachana na madre

[#DadaTeresa @jwaguma]

@everythngplants Yes. Lets DM please

[Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Muzukulu wa Bityo @CKyobutungi]

What will it take to scale nutritious, locally sourced school meals across Kenya? 🇰🇪

Evidence from @aphrc and partners points to a few key levers:

✅ Strengthening procurement systems
✅ Sourcing from smallholder farmers & local businesses
✅ Policies that shape better school meal choices

Scaling this right means better nutrition and learning for kids, stronger local livelihoods, and more resilient food systems.

Read more: https://t.co/MpzN4kVwt6

#SchoolMeals #Nutrition #FoodSystems #HealthySchools
#IamAPHRC

[#DadaTeresa @jwaguma]

@ChangeJatelo @georgediano Kwani women ni ma mbwa koko to be tamable?

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

In Somalia, millions of people lack access to clean water after decades of conflict left facilities in disrepair, but Mogadishu is now getting its first water testing lab in years.

Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris reports.

[Somali Eye @Somalieye122]

Mogadishu, after nearly five years of improved security and stability, is rapidly transforming. Growing business activity, development, and major construction projects are reshaping the city and positioning it to compete with other capitals across the region.

[Balqiis Insights @BalqiisInsights]

Balqiis Insights presents a map of AUSSOM’s current operational footprint across Somalia, showing 11,826 personnel deployed across 56 bases operated by five troop-contributing countries: Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti and Burundi.

AUSSOM’s presence is supported by UNSOS, which provides critical logistical and operational support, including transportation, communications and medical evacuation. With US support for UNSOS set to end after 31 December 2026, questions remain about how AUSSOM’s logistics, financing and operational continuity will be sustained.

As highlighted in our No Time to Drift study, this reinforces the need for Somalia and its international partners to ensure a planned and fully funded security transition that prevents gaps in security provision.

#BalqiisInsights #AUSSOM #Somalia

[Janet Machuka @janetmachuka_]

I watched a video done by a cancer researcher on why one shouldn’t spray their perfumes on the neck and it was worth it. The neck is one of the highest blood flow on the body. Its skin is very thin which means fragrances and chemicals get absorbed faster and deeper. She explains most of the perfumes and cosmetic products have endocrine disruptors which mimic or block our hormones. Most studies link them to infertility, respiratory problems and cancer.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

I think sermons and instructions telling Africans to "decolonize your minds!!" are moralistic, nd evangelical, and absolutely not helpful. At all. What Africans need to do is read, think and work. Not in order to decolonize, but to be a human being living in dignity. Screaming at people telling them to decolonize is confusing medicine for health. The point of taking medicine is to get well, not to take the medicine. Decolonization is the medicine, it is not human dignity, and human dignity is the goal.

And if I go by Kenya's example, anti-intellectualism is a big part of our colonial problem. People can't decolonize just by dancing and singing traditional songs. We must analyze, specialize and most of all, PRODUCE. Anything short of that will never arrive at decolonization.

[Faith Odhiambo @FaithOdhiambo8]

Kenya is not dealing with random criminals, I refuse to join such a chorus. We are dealing with a procurement system of violence with well known politicians as the buyers while the unemployed Kenyans are the commodity trading impunity as their currency!

The goons and criminal gangs have been allowed to run a parallel economy with well known buyers and sellers; until we prosecute the buyers, the market remains open!

As Civil Society Organizations, we will not fall under the pressure of such coercion and intimidation. We will call out these ills for what they are; outright defiance against our Constitution.

I stand with @dianagichengo, @TISAKenya and the entire Civil Society community.

[Omwamba 🇰🇪 @omwambaKE]

Nancy Matara, a Nominated MCA in Kisumu County is on record saying women and girls should be raped but not killed.

[#DadaTeresa @jwaguma]

@Safaricom_Care, stop forcing me into a trap. Saitan!!

Childrens come with a plate...ask @sautisol

[#DadaTeresa @jwaguma]

@KenyaEditors Can you mute that music?

[Nomasiko🇸🇩🇨🇩🇵🇸노마시코 S/her @Nomaculture]

Thia is so brilliant!
What a concept man!!!🥹🥹