February 15
Africa: South Africa Steps Up Cancer Data Gathering
South Africa has begun collecting data on cancer directly from patients for the first time, to help shape national cancer policies and resourcing. Read more »
December 22, 2023
Africa: Mentorship Key to Building Africa's Research Capacity
This article was supported by the O.R. Tambo Africa Research Chairs Initiative. Read more »
December 06, 2023
Africa: Data Crucial for Africa's Mental Health Response
A dearth of basic data on mental health conditions, as well as non-communicable diseases such as cancer and heart disease, is preventing people in Africa from accessing the care… Read more »
December 05, 2023
Africa: African Govts to Coordinate Outbreak Response
Over 90 per cent of African countries should be able to coordinate healthcare worker surges and other emergency measures within the next five years when faced with a disease… Read more »
December 01, 2023
Africa: Catalysing Momentum for Health Negotiations At COP28
Inaugural health day at COP28 climate summit could be 'watershed moment', write directors of Amref Health Africa. Read more »
November 27, 2023
Africa: Inclusive Policies Could Close Africa's Stem Gender Gap
This article was supported by IDRC. Read more »
November 03, 2023
Africa: Tambo Partnerships 'Can Transform Research in Africa'
This article was supported by the O.R. Tambo Africa Research Chairs Initiative. Read more »
November 16, 2023
Africa: AI a 'Potent Remedy' for Africa's Health Challenges
Artificial Intelligence (AI) could emerge as a potent remedy for long-standing challenges in Africa's health care sector if innovators, researchers and policymakers collaborated… Read more »
November 13, 2023
Africa: Pooled Procurement to Transform Africa's Vaccine Market
To protect public health, African states must work together to reshape vaccine access and promote self-sufficiency, write Akhona Tshangela and Jean Kaseya ahead of the Third… Read more »
October 27, 2023
Africa: Pesticide Policy Failings in Africa a Risk to Health
Stronger legislation is needed to curb the influx of illegal pesticide products in Africa, says chemicals risk expert Fredrick Otieno. Read more »
October 12, 2023
Africa: UN Pledges On TB Met With Caution By Health Community
World leaders must be held to account over renewed commitments to end TB including licensing a new vaccine, the global health community urged following a highly anticipated UN… Read more »
October 11, 2023
Africa: World Still in Shadow of Covid-19 Mental Health Legacy
This article was supported by Lloyd's Register Foundation Read more »
October 06, 2023
Africa: African Firms 'Need Know-How to Make New Malaria Jab'
Vaccine developers must share the know-how behind a groundbreaking new malaria jab so it can be rolled out efficiently to poor populations in Africa that need it most, according to… Read more »
September 20, 2023
Africa: Rattled Rice Importing Countries Eye Self-Sufficiency
An Indian export ban on non-basmati rice has spurred calls to pursue greater self-sufficiency among rice-consuming countries and expand rice production to new areas such as Africa… Read more »
August 30, 2023
Africa: 'Culture of Secrecy' Thwarting Data Sharing in Africa
The absence of a culture for sharing scientific data in many African countries is costing the continent numerous opportunities for accelerating its development, scientists warn. Read more »
August 28, 2023
Africa: Climate Monitoring Upgrades Urgently Needed in Africa
Damage and deaths caused by climate-related disasters across Africa will balloon if the continent's so-called "hydromet" infrastructure for monitoring weather and water and is not… Read more »
September 11, 2023
Africa: Africa Climate Summit Pledges 'Ignore Smallholders'
Commitments made at the first African Climate Summit, which will form the basis of talks at COP28 last this year, failed to address adequately the challenges facing the continent's… Read more »
August 03, 2023
Africa: Disability in a Pandemic - Africa's Forgotten Families
In 2017, a road accident left Anna Nzioka with two fractures in her right leg. After a series of operations and physiotherapy, she has slowly learned to walk again, although with… Read more »
August 07, 2023
Africa: Treating TB Contacts 'Saves Money' - Study
Administering preventive tuberculosis (TB) treatment to contacts of infected people could significantly cut deaths, and save money, researchers say. Read more »
July 27, 2023
Africa: Africa's Research Equality Charter to 'Bridge Divide'
More than 90 universities and science institutions in Africa have endorsed a charter to redress the power imbalance in global knowledge and research production and close the gap… Read more »
June 23, 2023
Africa: Quarter of a Billion At Hunger Risk After War, Drought
Almost a quarter of a billion people are now at risk of hunger as conflict, drought and flooding combined to wreak havoc on farms and food supply chains in 2022, according to the… Read more »
June 07, 2023
Africa: Generation Game - Gene-Edited Mosquitos to Fight Malaria
Population-level changes in the genetic make-up of one of the world's deadliest animals could provide a key in the fight against malaria, proponents of a radical new technology… Read more »
May 30, 2023
Africa: AI Crop Predictor Aids Africa's Crisis Planning
An Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool is using satellite remote sensing and machine learning to predict agricultural yields of key crops across Africa, to help mitigate the harms of… Read more »
April 25, 2023
Africa: Malaria Vaccine Adoption Pre-Empts WHO Green Light
The approval of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine by Ghana and Nigeria is the first time a major malaria intervention has been adopted without World Health Organization (WHO)… Read more »
April 14, 2023
Africa: Long-Term Funding Needed to Nurture African Science
Accelerating investment in science will equip Africa to address challenges faced by local communities and prevent an exodus of talent from the continent, says Thomas Kariuki,… Read more »