IMPLEMENTASI PENGGUNAAN DANA KELURAHAN TERHADAP PEMBANGUNAN INFRASTRUKTUR DAN PEMBERDAYAAN MASYARAKAT DI KECAMATAN MADIDIR KOTA BITUNG

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis implementasi penggunaan dana kelurahan terhadap pembangunan infrastruktur dan pemberdayaan masyarakat di kecamatan Madidir. Masalah pokok yang terjadi adalah anggaran dana kelurahan yang diterima masyarakat telah terealisasi dengan baik dan berdampak positif bagi masyarakat namun hanya dimanfaatkan selama tahun 2019 dan 2020 karena pada tahun 2021 anggaran dana kelurahan telah dialihkan untuk penanganan Covid-19. Salah satu bentuk upaya pemerintah dengan membangun daerah adalah penyaluran dana kelurahan didalam membangun sarana, prasaran bahkan sumber daya manusia. Adapun data yang digunakan dalam  penelitian ini adalah data sekunder yang diperoleh berdasarkan data yang tersedia dan bersumber dari kantor Kecamatan Madidir. Data yang tercakup dalam penelitian ini adalah data dana kelurahan yang di peruntukan bagi pembangunan infrastruktur dan pemberdayaan masyarakat di Kecamatan Madidir Tahun 2019 dan Tahun 2020. Temuan hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa perencanaan dan penyaluran dana kelurahan dikatakan berhasil didalam pengimplementasian terutama di bidang infrastruktur dan pemberdayaan masyarakat Kata Kunci      : Dana Kelurahan, Infrastruktur dan Pemberdayaan Masyaraka

Earth Observation Strategies For Degradation Monitoring In South Africa With The Sentinels - Results From The Spaces II Saldi-Project

The overarching goal of SALDi (South African Land Degradation MonItor) is to implement novel, adaptive, and sustainable tools for assessing land degradation in multi-use landscapes in South Africa. This presentationdemonstrates results from hyper-temporal Sentinel-1 and -2 timeseries concerning woody cover mapping in complex savanna systems, invasive slangbos bushencroachment in grassland areas and regional soil moisture retrievals. Validation has been performed by cross-comparisons, field trips and permanently installed soil moisture networks

Effect of ready-to-use supplementary food on mortality in severely immunocompromised HIV-infected individuals in Africa initiating antiretroviral therapy (REALITY): an open-label, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial.

BACKGROUND: In sub-Saharan Africa, severely immunocompromised HIV-infected individuals have a high risk of mortality during the first few months after starting antiretroviral therapy (ART). We hypothesise that universally providing ready-to-use supplementary food (RUSF) would increase early weight gain, thereby reducing early mortality compared with current guidelines recommending ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) for severely malnourished individuals only. METHODS: We did a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial, open-label, parallel-group trial at inpatient and outpatient facilities in eight urban or periurban regional hospitals in Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Eligible participants were ART-naive adults and children aged at least 5 years with confirmed HIV infection and a CD4 cell count of fewer than 100 cells per μL, who were initiating ART at the facilities. We randomly assigned participants (1:1) to initiate ART either with (RUSF) or without (no-RUSF) 12 weeks' of peanut-based RUSF containing 1000 kcal per day and micronutrients, given as two 92 g packets per day for adults and one packet (500 kcal per day) for children aged 5-12 years, regardless of nutritional status. In both groups, individuals received supplementation with RUTF only when severely malnourished (ie, body-mass index [BMI] 0·7). Through 48 weeks, adults and adolescents aged 13 years and older in the RUSF group had significantly greater gains in weight, BMI, and MUAC than the no-RUSF group (p=0·004, 0·004, and 0·03, respectively). The most common type of serious adverse event was specific infections, occurring in 90 (10%) of 897 participants assigned RUSF and 87 (10%) of 908 assigned no-RUSF. By week 48, 205 participants had serious adverse events in both groups (p=0·81), and 181 had grade 4 adverse events in the RUSF group compared with 172 in the non-RUSF group (p=0·45). INTERPRETATION: In severely immunocompromised HIV-infected individuals, providing RUSF universally at ART initiation, compared with providing RUTF to severely malnourished individuals only, improved short-term weight gain but not mortality. A change in policy to provide nutritional supplementation to all severely immunocompromised HIV-infected individuals starting ART is therefore not warranted at present. FUNDING: Joint Global Health Trials Scheme (UK Medical Research Council, UK Department for International Development, and Wellcome Trust).This study was funded by the Joint Global Health Trials Scheme (JGHTS) of the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the Wellcome Trust, and the UK Medical Research Council (MRC; G1100693). Additional funding support was provided by the PENTA foundation and core support to the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (London, UK; MC_UU_12023/23, MC_UU_12023/26). Cipla, Gilead Sciences, ViiV Healthcare/GlaxoSmithKline, and Merck Sharp & Dohme donated drugs for the study and ready-to-use supplementary food was purchased from Valid International. The MRC Clinical Trials Unit has received other funding from Tibotec and Gilead Sciences for data safety monitoring board membership and lectures. The Malawi–Liverpool–Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine (101113/Z/13/Z), and the KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi (203077/Z/16/Z) are supported by strategic awards from the Wellcome Trust (UK)

‘Oh you pretty thing!’: How David Bowie ‘unlocked everybody’s inner queen’ in spite of the music press

The 1967 Sexual Offence Act decriminalised homosexual acts between men allowing gay men to discuss their sexuality in public. Few prominent popular musicians came-out until 1972 when David Bowie claimed that he was bisexual in an interview with Melody Maker. Music papers and Bowie had substantial cultural power: Bowie was a rising star and music papers recruited journalists who discussed and perpetuated social change. The subsequent conversation, however, reinforced negative stereotypes in constructing the queer subject and tried to safeguard commercial concerns due to the assumption that the market for popular music avoided queer music. This undermined arguments that associate permissive legislation with a permissive media and society, but, to some, representation alone empowered people and destabilised preconceptions about queer identity.Published versio

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