November 08, 2022
Africa: Progress On Tuberculosis Can Be Achieved in Africa
The news in many parts of the world is that tuberculosis (TB) is reclaiming the title of the world's most deadly infection, even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to kill an… Read more »
November 03, 2022
Africa: Anti-Microbial Resistance Strategies Need Urgent Attention to Prevent Unnecessary Deaths in Africa
African countries must find a way of fighting Anti-Microbial Resistance in the healthcare system to avoid unnecessary deaths. Read more »
October 25, 2022
Africa: Climate Change Brings New Pest & Disease Pressures Previously Unimaginable #AfricaClimateCrisis
In temperate zones lie most of the world's richest countries, which have also been up till now the world's major breadbaskets, in meeting international grain, oilseed and livestock… Read more »
October 07, 2022
Africa: Addressing the Cow in the Room, Lowing for Nutrition and Livelihoods #AfricaClimateCrisis
Meat, milk, and eggs are bad for you, and livestock is bad for the environment. Read more »
September 22, 2022
Kenya: The New Cold War Over Access to Safe Abortion in Kenya
Fatuma is a 24 year old girl from Korogocho, an informal settlement in Nairobi. She died in December 2021, from complications arising from an unsafe abortion. Her friend and a few… Read more »
September 21, 2022
Africa: Answering the Challenges Posed By Antimicrobial Resistance on the Continent
Staphylococcus aureus is the source of a skin infection that can turn deadly if drug resistant. Estimates regarding the most common resistant variation, methicillin-resistant… Read more »
March 28, 2016
Malawi: Saving Children's Lives Through Drones
The first successful test-flight of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone was an unhindered 10 km journey from a community health centre to the Kamuzu central hospital… Read more »
December 17, 2010
Africa: Scientists Focus On Male Mosquitoes in Bid to Control Malaria
After successfully suppressing scourges of fruit, tsetse and screwworm flies in the Americas, researchers are exploring whether the same sterilised insect technique can be used to… Read more »
August 10, 2010
Kenya: Deadly Cactus Good for Animal Feed
Joseph Ole Morijo is baffled by research findings that cactus plants can be used as animal fodder during drought. Not after he lost his entire herd of 152 goats and sheep to the… Read more »
January 02, 2008
South Africa: Government Set to Reach Sanitation Target, But is It Enough?
The South African Department of Water Affairs and Forestry has narrowly missed one of its most important targets, aimed at improving sanitation for the country's poorest people -… Read more »
August 25, 2006
Africa: A Ghastly Disease Feeds Off a Ghastlier Oppression
Gender inequality has become the main driver of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, especially in Africa, where 70 percent of those infected are women. Read more »