Nigeria: Fast, Free Google WiFi Could Transform Nation's Health

Nigeria is the fifth country – and the first in Africa – to get Google Station super-fast Internet at selected locations. Read more »

Namibia: First Lady Monica Geingos Receives World Without Aids Award

The first lady of Namibia, Monica Geingos, and singer and political activist Sir Bob Geldof have won the 2018 World Without AIDS Award. Read more »

Africa: How We Invest In - and Achieve - Health for Africa

Now is the time for African women to stand up for ourselves and nurture leadership among others. We have been fantastic in many areas essential to progress at the family and… Read more »

Africa: Waging Justice: The Alchemy of Living with Optimism

We are living in a time of huge social and geopolitical upheaval. Institutions and established doctrines that once appeared predictable and protective now seem crazily unmoored. Read more »

Africa: Poor Vision Affects Billions, Costs Trillions – a Feasible Fix

Try to imagine life – school, home, work – without eyeglasses. Then reflect that poor vision is the world's largest unaddressed disability, affecting an estimated 2.5… Read more »

Africa: Africa Needs to Invest Much More in Its People

Progress in the fight against extreme poverty in Africa has been way too slow. Although the poverty rate has declined from 54 percent in 1990 to 41 percent in 2015, a rapid… Read more »

South Africa: Ramaphosa Unveils $3.5 Billion Stimulus for Recession-Hit Economy

President Cyril Ramaphosa, who inherited a contracting economy from his scandal-ridden predecessor, today announced an economic stimulus and recovery plan for the country. The plan… Read more »

South Africa: How Mining Damages Communities and the Environment

The South African Human Rights Commission has released a scathing report on the damage mining in the country is posing to human rights. The conclusion paints a dark picture: "[T]he… Read more »

Africa: Ghana first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate trachoma

Ghana has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. It is the first country in Sub Saharan Africa to eliminate the painful and potentially blinding eye condition… Read more »

Africa: African Expertise Key to Stopping Ebola - Then and Now

An Ebola outbreak in the eastern part of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is once again straining Africa's medical resources. Read more »

Africa: New Drive to Develop Drugs in Africa to Fight Malaria, TB

In a bid to generate African solutions to African challenges, researchers on the continent are being offered grants to come up with new drugs to fight malaria, tuberculosis and… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: WHO Chief Tedros Flies Into DR Congo to Direct Ebola Response

The World Health Organization's director-general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, flew into the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the weekend to visit an area hit by an outbreak… Read more »

Africa: Saving Lives, One Birth at a Time

Today, on the International Day of the Midwife, we not only commit to celebrating midwives as they lead the way with quality care, but to giving them a platform to inform global… Read more »

Nigeria: Immunization: A National Health Emergency

As we mark Africa Vaccination Week and World Immunization Week, the World Health Organization, the Gates Foundation, the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunization (GAVI) and… Read more »

Africa: We are Ready to Beat Malaria, Are You?

Today the world commemorates World Malaria Day. Although Malaria is a life-threatening disease the good news is that it is curable and can be prevented. You can be infected with… Read more »

Africa: Zambian Malaria Expert Honoured on World's Greatest Leaders List

An African scientist on the cutting edge of research into drugs which have the potential to both protect and cure people from malaria in a single dose has been named as one of… Read more »

Africa: When Malaria is Just Part of Growing Up

Growing up in West or Central Africa, malaria is the most common illness you suffer from. I would say, where I lived in Buea at the foot of Mount Cameroon, that nearly… Read more »

Africa: 'You're Miserable. You're Beyond Miserable.' - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Having Malaria

For millions of Africans, malaria is a debilitating disease which repeatedly disrupts their lives and their productivity, leaving them "miserable, beyond miserable" every time it… Read more »

Africa: Malaria Summit Sees U.S.$4,1 Billion Committed to Fight Disease

More than a dozen heads of State and government, Bill Gates, ministers from 19 Commonwealth countries, scientists and private sector and international organisations have made… Read more »

Africa: Ready to Beat Malaria: Thematic Areas and Case Studies

Thematic areas and Case Studies Read more »

Africa: Now or Never - Quashing Malaria Before It Roars Back

A powerful international coalition of civil society organisations launches a new campaign in London today to fight back against the threatened resurgence of malaria. Read more »

Africa: Time Is Now To Scale Up Women's Rights And Nutrition Activism In Africa

Op-ed by Martin Chungong, Secretary-General of IPU, Dr Ibrahim Mayaki, CEO of NEPAD Agency and Nahas Angula, former Prime Minister of Namibia and Convener of the Namibia Alliance… Read more »

South Africa: Moving South Africa Forward - The Ramaphosa Way

Another beautiful morning in Cape Town when at 5am, President Cyril Ramaphosa embarked on his 6km "people's" walk from Lookout Hill in Khayelitsha to Rocklands, Mitchells Plain, on… Read more »

Africa: African Patients Twice As Likely to Die After Surgery - Report

Patients in African hospitals are twice as likely to die after surgery than the average patient across the globe, and the most common complications suffered after operations are… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Shortages Force Slashing of Food Rations in Kasai

Food shortages have forced the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to slash food rations in the conflict-ridden DR Congo province of Kasai, where more than three-quarters of a million… Read more »