Nigeria: Health and Agriculture Key, Says Kwara Governor Saraki

This interview was first done in 2009, when an AllAfrica team visited a rural health clinic and a farm in Kwara state and afterwards talked to then-Governor Bukola Saraki about… Read more »

Nigeria: Ondo State Governor Determined to Turn Tide on Maternal Health

One in five Nigerian children will die before reaching his or her fifth birthday, according to Save the Children. Their mothers are also suffering - the country accounted for 14… Read more »

Africa: Eradicating Malaria 'Only Viable Long-Term Strategy'

Dr. David Brandling-Bennett, deputy director of the malaria programme at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, says that recent success in Zambia is proof that real progress can… Read more »

Zambia: Tracking a Lethal Foe

Early in the morning, not long after the sun rises above the Zambian plains, they map out their plan of attack. A detailed strategy is needed; after all, they are on the trail of a… Read more »

Uganda: Top Google Searches Reveal Tech Focus

Apple and Samsung gadgets have been the talk of the year 2012 and it wasn't a surprise when Google released their Year-End Zeitgeist and found the two company products amongst the… Read more »

Africa: Attacking Malaria Before it Sickens (Part2)

"We are now witnessing a true renaissance, an awakening, about malaria," Carlos (Kent) Campbell said when he accepted a lifetime achievement award in November at the American… Read more »

Africa: Remarkable Strides, Formidable Challenges, Says Malaria Fighter (Part 1)

In receiving the distinguished Joseph Augustin LePrince Medal in recognition of outstanding work in the field of malariology, Carlos (Kent) Campbell said last month that the world… Read more »

Africa: The Fight Against Aids - No Time to 'Rest on Our Laurels'

Saturday marks World Aids Day. Stephen Lewis, chair of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, which helps fight HIV/Aids, says the human face of the disease needs to be restored and that it… Read more »

South Africa: Chasing the Final Flush

There is no shortage of jokes and a long list of euphemisms when it comes to talking about toilets. Read more »

Liberia: Pipe Dreams - Waiting for Water in Monrovia

"The hanging latrines" of West Point are not one of Liberia's most celebrated beauty spots. But this modest collection of elevated toilets, erected on the banks of the Mesurado… Read more »

Africa: Using Family Planning as a 'Liberating Force'

Nearly 20 years ago, 179 countries came together and made a commitment to provide sexual and reproductive health care, including family planning, to their people. The… Read more »

Africa: New Plan to Fill Training Gap for Medical Workers

A new program to send doctors and nurses as volunteers to Africa is gathering momentum and aims to fill a training gap among Africa's medical workers. The doctors and nurses will… Read more »

East Africa: U.S. to Send Medics to Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda

A new program to send doctors and nurses as volunteers to Africa is gathering momentum and aims to fill a training gap among Africa's medical… Read more »

Africa: Kent Campbell Honored for Innovation in Malaria Fight

The way Dr. Carlos (Kent) Campbell sees it, the world is on the brink of something great in the battle against malaria – a fight that Campbell has been waging for nearly… Read more »

Africa: Small Farmers Merit Support - Gates Foundation

Africa's population – in contrast to other regions – is growing significantly younger. How to employ, educate and feed that youth bulge is the topic of a report… Read more »

Africa: Aiming to Eliminate Preventable Child Deaths

The world is winning the fight to keep children alive, and preventable child deaths may, at some point in the near future, be a thing of the past, according to Carolyn Miles,… Read more »

South Africa: Mother and Baby Put to the Test

In July, AllAfrica.com reported on a clinic in Cape Town, South Africa, that has defied the country's distressing trend over the past decade of maternal mortality rates rising… Read more »

Kenya: Cattle in the Capital - Urban Agriculture Comes to Town

Leonard Gichuru Gitau is a city dweller, but it doesn't take a detective to see that he is also a livestock farmer. The lowing of cattle greets visitors to his neatly… Read more »

Africa: Urgent Calls to Combat Drug Resistant TB

In the face of the growing threat of tuberculosis that is resistant to standard medication, researchers are calling for renewed efforts to find a vaccine to prevent TB, while other… Read more »

Kenya: Vaccines, Vitamins and Vegetables - The Nutrition Fight Front Lines

A glossy nutrition pamphlet flies through the clinic's open doorway and hits a pacing rooster head-on. The disgruntled bird stops mid cockle-doodle-doo and struts away. Read more »

Africa: Tracking Killers and Healers - a Research and Reporting Collaboration

Over the past several weeks, AllAfrica's crack investigative team has documented scientists acting strangely. At summits, symposia and scholarly consultations – and in… Read more »

Africa: African Herders Help Eradicate Deadly Livestock Disease

The last known case of rinderpest, a lethal livestock disease, was confirmed 10 years ago in a buffalo wandering Kenya's Mount Meru National Park. In May 2011 the disease was… Read more »

Africa: Eradicating Malaria Possible but Needs Efforts and Funds

The last decade has seen a successful global effort to reduce the toll of malaria - a deadly, mosquito-borne infectious disease. In the Africa region, according to the World Health… Read more »

Kenya: Ngilu Pursues Presidency on Pro-Poor Platform

Kenya's water and irrigation minister, Charity Kaluki Ngilu announced her bid for the presidency this week as leader of the National Rainbow Coalition. She calls it the "party of… Read more »

South Africa: Nation Bucks Trend of Declining TB

The health and wellbeing of South Africans is worsening rather than improving, according to a key indicator. Read more »