Africa: Mobile Technology Revolutionizes Healthcare

The use of mobile technology to help improve health in both the developed and developing world is rapidly gaining momentum. A recent summit on mobile health technology, or… Read more »

Africa: Major Summit Promotes Mobile Technologies for Better Health

More than 2,500 participants from around the world in the fields of technology and public health have wrapped up a summit in Washington, DC, on how to more effectively deliver… Read more »

Africa: Mobile Phones 'Powerful' in Promoting Health, Advocates Say

Leaders in the business, development, health and research communities are gathering this week in Washington, DC, to plan how to more effectively deliver healthcare through mobile… Read more »

Africa: Continent Makes Major Gains in Improving People's Lives, Says UN Report

Ethiopia has emerged as Africa's top performer in improving its people's lives over the past 40 years, says a major United Nations report published today. But while most African… Read more »

Africa: Women and Children the Focus of Achieving MDGs

With five years remaining to achieve the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has made it clear that a concerted,… Read more »

Africa: Focus on Women and Girls Key to MDG Success

As world leaders gather this week in New York to assess progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), they will face stark challenges to social and economic development,… Read more »

Liberia: Volunteers Bring Hearts and Brains to Help Close Health Gap

Until recently, the emergency room at Liberia's main hospital was "a place you came to die," says Dr. Braden Hexom, who teaches emergency medicine at New York's Mount Sinai School… Read more »

Africa: Continent Makes 'Substantial Progress' But Needs U.S. $120 Billion a Year

Excerpts from the Commission on Africa's 2010 report, Still Our Common Interest, on Africa's development since 2005: Read more »

Africa: Africa's Women Turn 50

Five decades ago, 17 African countries threw off the brutal and degrading yoke of colonialism. The 50th anniversary of African national liberation is an opportunity to critically… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Shifts Focus of Health Aid, Says Clinton

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the United States has moved to a more holistic approach to investing in global health and that countries receiving aid need to… Read more »

South Africa: Scientists Proclaim Breakthrough in HIV Prevention

Scientists have proclaimed a breakthrough in research into the use of an antiretroviral microbicide which they say could prevent more than 500,000 new HIV infections in South… Read more »

Africa: Africans Advance Quest for a Malaria Vaccine

On World Malaria Day 2010, the international community marks a historic milestone in the fight against malaria. This past year, we launched a Phase III efficacy trial of the… Read more »

Africa: World Must Retain Focus on Anti-Malaria Fight, Says Expert

Despite recent achievements in fighting malaria, the international community must not become complacent or distracted, says Dr. Steven Phillips, medical director of global issues… Read more »

Africa: Chissano Calls On Politicians, Scientists to Co-operate Over Water

This week marks World Water Day, and I am personally endorsing a report by African scientists that examines our continent’s water resources and calls for our political… Read more »

Africa: Melinda Gates Lauds Health and Economic Advances for Continent's Poorest

Despite impressive economic growth across Africa in recent years, the distribution of wealth has been uneven, and pernicious poverty persists. Few countries are expected to meet… Read more »

Africa: Fighting Aids Needs Innovation, Gates Says

Software entrepreneur Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, have focused increasing attention in recent years on philanthropic work, in particular addressing health issues in the… Read more »

Africa: Bill Gates Issues Upbeat Take on African Health, Food Initiatives

Software entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist Bill Gates issued an upbeat assessment Monday on the prospects of overcoming the challenges faced by the world's poorest people –… Read more »

South Africa: Zuma Steps Up Fight Against Aids

President Jacob Zuma has announced a range of new measures to fight HIV/Aids and will undergo testing for his HIV status as part of a new campaign to persuade all South Africans to… Read more »

Africa: HIV Infections Decline Slowly in Sub-Saharan Region

The rate of new HIV infections has slowly declined in sub-Saharan Africa, but the region remains the area of the world most heavily hit by the epidemic and it accounts for nine of… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Peace Corps to Bring New Focus to Food Security

The Obama administration earlier this year named a former United States Peace Corps volunteer, Aaron S. Williams, as the program's new director. The Peace Corps, which will soon… Read more »

Africa: Singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka Campaigns Against Malaria

The singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka visits New York this week to help campaign for the voices of Africa's women and children to be heard at the opening of the new session of the United… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Toxic Waste Claimants Offered Payouts

A Dutch-based oil trading company has offered to pay more than 30 million Euros (U.S. $48 million) to up to 31,000 Ivorians who said toxic waste dumped in Abidjan made them ill in… Read more »

South Africa: In Face of HIV Crisis, Don't Forget About Cancer

Sue Janse van Rensburg, the chief executive officer of the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA), is proud of South Africa's effort in the worldwide battle against cancer,… Read more »

Africa: Giving Priority to a 'Quieter' Disease

Dr. Judith Mackay, a long-time anti-smoking advocate, believes the recent LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Summit in Dublin, Ireland, was a landmark in the fight against cancer. Professor… Read more »

Africa: Smoking Threatens Africa With Cancer Epidemic

Tobacco use in Africa is growing faster than in other continents, says Dr. John Seffrin, who has been on the frontlines in the war against cancer for several years and now serves… Read more »