Kenya: Kenya's Population Growth Decreases As More Women Embrace Modern Family Planning

According to a family planning brief, more than 370 million women in middle and low-income countries were finally embracing modern contraception to help curb unintended… Read more »

Ethiopia: International Systems Are Key for Ethiopia's Security and Development Amidst Renewed War

Less than a year since warring parties in Ethiopia signed a peace agreement, the country is on the brink of renewed bloodshed following escalating hostilities between government… Read more »

Ethiopia: Sexual Violence Survivors in Tigray Need Urgent Medical, Psychological and Economic Support

The war in Tigray, northern Ethiopian, led to sexual and gender-based violence against women, but when Hilina Berhanu Degefa, researcher, gender policy expert and co-founder of the… Read more »

Africa: Vaccine Equality Is As Vital for Livestock As for People

Enrique Hernández Pando is Executive Director, Commercial Development & Impact, GALVmed Read more »

Africa: Pre-Colonial Delicacy Could Help Food Security and Climate Change #AfricaClimateHope

Kenya's fight for food security may have just gone 'Old School' as Egerton University dons win a grant to help bring back a pre-colonial delicacy that was gradually sliding its way… Read more »

Africa: Climate Change Is Making Us Sick, Says WHO Envoy #AfricaClimateCrisis

Climate change is making us sick. It has become urgent to build resilient health systems to secure humanity's well-being, says the special envoy for climate change and health of… Read more »

Africa: Government Health Financing for All, Not Insurance

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Nazihah Noor Read more »

Africa: TB Preventive Treatment - The Need for Choice

The progress made in HIV prevention is nothing short of a global success story. It is time that TB caught up to HIV. Medicine is simply too advanced for us to tolerate how one… Read more »

Africa: Soaring Food Prices Leading to Obesity As Well As Hunger

The climate, conflict and economic shocks of recent years and their impact on food prices have landed a huge blow to the world's hopes of achieving the Sustainable Development Goal… Read more »

Africa: Improving Healthcare for All

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Nazihah Noor Read more »

Africa: Marginalising Key Populations Impacting Efforts to End HIV/Aids Epidemic

A report released this week has highlighted how continuing criminalisation and marginalisation of key populations are stymying efforts to end the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Read more »

East Africa: Grey Market Charcoal East Africa - Why Prohibitionist Interventions Are Failing

At Kampala's Nakawa market, Lovisa Nabisubi scoops charcoal from a bag and packs it into tins ready for customers. Her bare hands, feet, and clothes are stained black from hours of… Read more »

Africa: Vaccination is the Best Bet Against Drug-Resistant Superbugs - Experts

Childhood vaccination, complemented with clean drinking water and improved hygiene practices, are the key to eradication of typhoid XDR, not indiscriminate use of antibiotics, say… Read more »

Africa: Tuberculosis - A Disease of the Poor That Needs Rich Funding

The United Nations General Assembly is convening a high-level meeting on Tuberculosis (TB) to get a political commitment for increased funding for programmes and research to end an… Read more »

East Africa: Food Beyond The Reach of Millions in Horn of Africa

Four months pregnant, Ayan was close to dying of starvation when she arrived at the Kabasa camp in Dolow, on the border between Somalia and Ethiopia. Read more »

Africa: Global Community Celebrates Medical Innovations and Milestones Since Defining Leprosy Discovery 150 Years Ago

The 1873 discovery of Mycobacterium leprae, the causative agent of leprosy by Norwegian doctor Gerhard Armauer Hansen, remains one of the greatest paradigm shifts in medical… Read more »

South Africa: Making the Impossible Possible, Chronicles of an Ambassador's Lifelong Frontline Battle to End Leprosy

In 1974, Yohei Sasakawa accompanied his father to a leprosy hospital he had funded. He saw leprosy patients inside the hospital still and expressionless. The smell of leprosy… Read more »

Africa: Close Inequalities to End Aids & Prepare for Future Pandemics

By Winnie Byanyima and Sir Michael Marmot Read more »

Benin: World Hunger Day - Renewing Our Commitment to Elevating Women As Change Agents for Ending Hunger

This upcoming weekend, on May 28, we are commemorating World Hunger Day. The day serves as a reminder that more than 800 million people around the world are living with hunger and… Read more »

Africa: Nothing Beats Bushmeat, Not Even the Risk of Disease

Meat from wild animals is relished across Africa and widely traded, but scientists are warning that eating bush meat is a potential health risk, especially in the wake of pandemics… Read more »

Sudan: The Privilege of Making a Choice

A civilian student named Saber was caught in the crossfire in Khartoum. He had two choices: either flee and lose everything; or die. But within a moment his option to choose was… Read more »

Africa: New Mosquito Species Could Derail Fight Against Malaria

'Urban' Kenya has been alerted because new mosquito species, Anopheles stephensi, threatens to derail decades of effort made in the fight against malaria. Read more »

Africa: Can a Pledge to End TB Stick This Time Around?

This week, the United Nations will host two days (May 8-9) of preliminary talks to plan a larger conference on tuberculosis (TB) in September. These preliminary talks will be held… Read more »

Sudan: In Sudanese Conflict, Either You Lose Everything, or You Die

On the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, Sabre Nasr, a young Egyptian man of 20, developed a fever. Read more »

Africa: The Last Mile to Malaria Elimination - Confronting Gender Inequalities & Power Dynamics

For centuries, malaria has remained one of the deadliest diseases, inflicting great suffering on families and perpetuating the cycle of poverty in many communities and nations. The… Read more »