Africa: Trade Talks Threaten Access to Aids Drugs

Humanitarian aid has come a long way in the last 40 years, says the international president of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Dr. Unni Karunakara, but he warns that… Read more »

Africa: Raising 'Uncomfortable Questions' in a Changing World

Part 2 of a conversation with the international president of Médecins Sans Frontières. Read more »

Africa: Great Gains Against Killer Diseases At Risk

Part 1 of a conversation with the international president of Mèdecins Sans Frontières. Read more »

Kenya: Court Ruling on Generic Drugs Sets Precedent for the Region

Thousands of people living with HIV and Aids in East Africa were given new hope on 25 April 2012, when a high court judge in Nairobi ruled that Kenya’s anti-counterfeit law… Read more »

Africa: HIV Funding Boosts General Health Services - Study

The debate within the global health community about the impact of dedicated HIV/Aids funding on general public health services has been taken a step further with a study showing… Read more »

Africa: Fighting Malaria - 'Best Investment in Health in Decades'

The pay-off from investment in anti-malaria programmes has been nothing short of spectacular, and every effort must be made to maintain these efforts, says the director of the… Read more »

Africa: Malaria - a Mass Killer Under Fire

Malaria is in the bull's eye of a global campaign. The target is zero malaria deaths by 2015. The challenge is how to get there -- and stay there. Read more »

Africa: Get Ahead of the Competition! Enter AllAfrica's "Caught in the Net" Contest Early

AllAfrica wants to show the world where and how bed nets are being put to good use. Next month we will launch a photo competition and announce judging procedures and prizes.… Read more »

Africa: Are Maternal Deaths a 'Right to Life' Issue?

Picture yourself in a room with 30 other women - knowing that one of you will die during pregnancy or childbirth. That's not a concept for a macabre TV show - unless it's reality… Read more »

Kenya: Slum Midwives Bridge Labour Gap

To the casual visitor, the dusty, dimly lit room may not look much like a birthing center. But many women consider their babies lucky to enter the world in this mud-walled space in… Read more »

South Sudan: Nets for Relief as Refugees Flee

Against the backdrop of renewed hostilities between South Sudan and its northern neighbour, a fresh initiative aims to provide some relief from an ever-present threat that is… Read more »

Kenya: Cultivating Traditional Crops to Fight Malnutrition

If growing up in an agricultural community were the key to health, the children of Kiamwangi would be thriving. But Jane Hunyu, who farms a quarter-acre plot here, says the… Read more »

Africa: Historic Challenges Remain in TB Fight

What do George Orwell, Frederic Chopin and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have in common? Read more »

Kenya: Traditional Male Circumcision With a Modern Edge

A chorus of ululations pierces the dawn at Pius Nyaga's homestead in eastern Kenya, marking the end of a brief ritual near the family cowshed. Nyaga's son, Antony Mwiti, has just… Read more »

Africa: Healthcare in Africa - Spectacular but Precarious Progress

'Spectacular progress', 'huge opportunities' and 'jeopardy and vulnerability' - with these stark headlines the former Global Fund chief, Sir Richard Feachem, framed Africa's past,… Read more »

South Sudan: Striving for Equity in Health for Women

Today, March 8, marks International Women's Day, a day in which to both note the tremendous strides women have made globally over the past 100 years, as well as acknowledge the… Read more »

Liberia: No Time for Complacency in HIV Fight

Smartly seated behind his computer, crunching out numbers and making calls to colleagues, Anthony*, a 38-year-old father of three, is amongst those looking to check the spread of… Read more »

Africa: Empowering Women to Fight HIV

What makes a young African doctor decide to devote her career to helping women fight HIV? Dr. Sengeziwe Sibeko is a 37-year-old medical researcher with a degree in obstetrics and… Read more »

Africa: Back to the Lab

Professor Salim Abdool Karim, director of the Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (Caprisa) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Columbia University in the… Read more »

Africa: No Changing Mindset on Contraception 'Overnight'

Dr. Quarraisha Abdool Karim is an infectious diseases epidemiologist and associate scientific director of the Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in South Africa (Caprisa).… Read more »

Africa: No Time to 'Give Up' on HIV-Fighting Gel

Africans tracking the worldwide HIV epidemic have not found much to celebrate since Aids began ravaging the continent 30 years ago, but researchers are optimistic that they are… Read more »

Africa: Global Fund for Aids, TB and Malaria Faces Challenges

In its short 10-year history, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has saved millions of lives, but as it marks its anniversary it finds itself the subject of… Read more »

Kenya: New Seeds Boost Yields for Drought-Hit Farmers

For a couple that has weathered the dual tests of early retirement and repeated crop failures, it might have seemed an impossible dream to former primary-school teacher Philip… Read more »

Africa: Aid Can Spur 'Historic Progress' - Bill Gates

Bill and Melinda Gates, who co-chair the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, say that they are responding to a challenge from Warren Buffet by taking on "the really tough… Read more »

Africa: Malaria Scientist Does Groundbreaking Research

At the Malaria Forum hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in October, the latest findings on what is currently the most viable malaria vaccine candidate in medical… Read more »