Africa: 'Magnificent Strides' Against Malnutrition

The governments of the UK and Brazil, and the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), will co-host a high-level international meeting, Nutrition for Growth: Beating Hunger… Read more »

Africa: Lancet Highlights Importance of Maternal, Child Nutrition

A new Lancet series on maternal and child nutrition examines the problems associated with undernutrition and successful interventions. A similar report released by Lancet in 2008… Read more »

Africa: Bold Goals, Measurement Needed for Progress Against Poverty

With the expiration of the initiative still more than a year away, there is planning underway to move beyond the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aimed at… Read more »

Liberia: From Stabilization to Transformation - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

A decade after the worst fighting of its long conflict, which killed an estimated 200,000 of a pre-war population of 2.8 million and forcibly displaced a majority - as many as 1.8… Read more »

Africa: 'It's the Turn of the African Woman'

Toyin Ojora-Saraki, founder and president of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa, a maternal, newborn and child health and empowerment organization, has dedicated more than 20 years to… Read more »

Africa: Let's Make the Next 50 Years Even Better for Children in Africa

This week, African leaders will gather in Ethiopia to celebrate 50 years since the formation of the Organisation of African Unity - now known simply as the African Union. It's an… Read more »

Africa: Mastectomy Disclosure by Angelina Jolie May Help Reduce Stigma in Africa

In disclosing in the New York Times on Tuesday that she underwent a double mastectomy, actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie also called attention to the many women in Africa and… Read more »

Africa: DR Congo Riskiest Country For New Mothers

The riskiest country in the world to be a new mother is the Democratic Republic of Congo. That's according to Save the Children's 2013 State of the World's Mothers report. Read more »

Africa: Babies Dying Gets Me Where It Hurts

"Eight thousand newborn babies will die during this conference." Read more »

Nigeria: Battling Malaria Without Drugs or Knowledge

The statistics are shocking. Over 300,000 Nigerians die from malaria each year – more than in any other country. An estimated 250,000 are children younger than five. Read more »

Africa: Malaria in Liberia - 'The Struggle Continues'

I woke up feeling the headache and chills, and made a couple of trips to the bathroom to ease the nausea. The experience was all too familiar; I was having another bout of malaria,… Read more »

Africa: Malaria Care Improves With Cash

A question had been nagging at Ghanaian researcher Alexander Nartey. Read more »

Africa: Malaria - Keeping a Crafty Killer On the Run

Imagine that snake attacks were killing a person a minute. Or that it was dogs, or foxes or chickens that were killing three-quarters of a million people a year. Envision the… Read more »

Africa: African Scientists Endorse New Polio Eradication Strategy

Nigerian and South African scientists have joined hundreds of other experts from more than 80 other countries to launch the Scientific Declaration on Polio Eradication – a… Read more »

Africa: Poverty No Bar to Fighting Deadly Undernutrition

Some of the world’s poorest countries, including two in sub-Saharan Africa, are showing the greatest political commitment to tackling hunger and undernutrition, while some of… Read more »

Africa: Landmark Ruling in Medicine Patent Court Battle

India's highest court has dismissed Swiss drug maker Novartis AG's petition seeking patent protection for a cancer drug, according to an Al Jazeera report. Read more »

South Africa: Rethinking a Traditional Approach to TB Treatment

In contrast to many countries in the world where tuberculosis rates are declining, the incidence of TB in South Africa has risen by 400 percent in the past 15 years, according to… Read more »

South Africa: Why Doesn't Everyone Have TB?

"It's complex" is a phrase that crops up frequently when asking health specialists to explain why South Africa is struggling to control tuberculosis. Read more »

South Africa: When Dated Drugs Are the Only Weapon

Somewhere between walking out her front door in Cape Town, taking a taxi to college and hanging out with friends, Phumeza Tisile caught tuberculosis. Read more »

Kenya: Women-Led Farm Initiative Aims For Peace, Prosperity

Fear of violence surrounding the upcoming general elections next week has raised anxiety among many Kenyans, but less so for Nyokabi Wamuyu. She is counting on a new initiative in… Read more »

Nigeria: Nine Polio Health Workers Gunned Down

Unknown gunmen shot dead nine women involved in Nigeria's polio-vaccination campaign in the northern city of Kano on Friday in two separate attacks, press reports said on Friday. Read more »

Africa: Kangaroo Care Boosts the Odds for Preterm Infants

In one world, Tabitha Wanjiku is shimmying under cars, tweaking transmissions and rewiring brake lights on her way to certification as a mechanic. In another, the soft-spoken,… Read more »

Africa: Mozambican Wins Prestigious Vaccine Innovation Award

Sixty-four-year-old Margarida Matsinhe has won the 2013 Gates Vaccine Innovation Award for her "instrumental" work in overhauling the vaccine system in her native Mozambique. Read more »

Africa: Supporting Women in Agriculture for a 'Prosperous' Africa

The African Union (AU) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, but instead of looking back, the current chair, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, seems intent on casting her vision… Read more »

Egypt: Investigation Continues After Wild Poliovirus Is Detected

Nearly eight years after the World Health Organization declared Egypt polio free and two years after the last reported case, wild poliovirus has popped up in the capital,… Read more »