Africa: New Approaches Needed on Sanitation

No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by the invention of the toilet. Read more »

Africa: South African University to Reinvent the Toilet

The next time you use the toilet, give a thought to what you would do if there weren't one. That's the challenge that faces 40 percent of the earth's population - 2.6 billion… Read more »

Liberia: Chevron Announces Social Initiatives During High-Level Tour

The U.S. oil giant Chevron is launching initiatives aimed at improving health and supporting development in Liberia. Read more »

Tanzania: Young Chemist Seeks Answers in Traditional Medicine

When Justin Omolo was growing up in Tanzania, he preferred Western medical clinics to African traditional healers. "I was the only one in my family who didn't believe in all the… Read more »

Africa: Country-Led Development Improves Health

Delegates from four African health ministries taking part in this month's 38th Annual International Conference on Global Health described how leadership and country-led development… Read more »

South Africa: Michelle Obama Does Push-Ups With Archbishop Tutu

U.S First Lady Michelle Obama ended her week-long visit to South Africa by meeting the Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu - and getting a bit of a workout. Read more »

Africa: Reducing Fees to Lower Child, Maternal Mortality Rates

Dr. Kisito Sheku Daoh is the chief medical officer in Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health. He acts as the chief liaison between the ministry and the health partners and the lead… Read more »

Africa: Extending Health Insurance and Free Care

Dr. Salif Samake is Mali's director of Health Planning and Statistics and oversees management of the ministries of Health, Social Affairs, and the Promotion of Women, Children and… Read more »

Africa: Poor Resources Delay Achievement of Development Goals

Moussa Mbaye is the secretary general of Senegal's Ministry of Health. He recently attended the International Conference on Global Health in Washington, DC, as part of the… Read more »

Africa: Education Vital to Good Health

Dr. Samuel A.S. Kargbo is the director of reproductive health in Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health and Sanitation. He recently attended the International Conference on Global… Read more »

Africa: Thinking Local to Build Health Systems

Francis Omaswa is executive director of the African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation (ACHEST), an initiative incorporated in Uganda and promoted by a network of… Read more »

Africa: Is Your Cellphone Bad for Your Health?

A recent international conference focused on the use of cellphones to aid health care, made me think about my own health and my own phone. Read more »

Africa: Donors Pledge U.S. $4.3 Billion to Immunize Children

Major public and private donors have pledged more than U.S.$4.3 billion to immunize at least 250 million of the world's poorest children against life-threatening diseases over the… Read more »

Africa: Mobile Phones Improve Health Across Continent

Peter Benjamin is the general manager of Cell-Life, a South African non-profit organisation that uses cellphones to assist with healthcare in the HIV/Aids sector. Cell-Life is… Read more »

Africa: Call to Assess Role of Mobile Technology in Health

With more than 70 percent of the world’s five billion cellphone users living in low- and middle-income countries, mobile technology is seen as offering the potential to… Read more »

West Africa: Meningitis Vaccine Could Save 140,000 Lives

There has been a dramatic drop in the number of cases of meningitis A in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso following the vaccination of nearly 20 million people against the disease,… Read more »

Africa: Exploring Mobile Communications for Healthcare

An inaugural summit on the use of mobile communications to support healthcare opens in Cape Town on Monday. Read more »

Nigeria: Beating Grim Odds of Childbirth

An expectant mother in northern Nigeria faces higher risks in childbirth than in most any other place in the world, according to international public health surveys. Read more »

Africa: Sustain 'Fragile' Successes in Fight Against Malaria

We have encouraging news out of Africa this week of World Malaria Day, as we take stock of the illnesses and deaths caused by this longtime scourge. Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Sick, Wounded, Hungry Stranded in Homes

As the political stalemate drags on in Cote d'Ivoire, the humanitarian situation in the countryside and in the main city, Abidjan, continues to deteriorate. In Abidjan, especially,… Read more »

Africa: 'Best Chance' to End Polio - Bill Gates Promotes Vaccines and Food Programs to Attack Poverty

The likelihood that few African countries will meet any of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, aimed at reducing severe poverty by 2015, has prompted a spate of… Read more »

Equatorial Guinea: Rights Group Appeals to Obiang to Uphold AU Principles

The African Union's choice of Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang as its new chairperson challenges his government to fulfill the organization's standards for democracy… Read more »

Sudan: 'Lost Boy' Returns Home to Make a Difference

Wol Akujang was among the more than 20,000 "Lost Boys" who were displaced or orphaned during Sudan's civil war. He left his village of Pap at the age of six and spent time in… Read more »

Africa: Using Mobile Technology to Improve Health

Last year the Rockefeller Foundation, the United Nations Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation - three of the leading foundations involved in global health, technology and… Read more »

Africa: Seizing the Opportunity of Mobile Technology for Health and Medicine

Each year, millions of people die from preventable diseases. At the recent 2010 mHealth Summit in Washington D.C., Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, discussed the opportunity for… Read more »