Uganda: Museveni and Bush Discuss Trade, HIV at Meeting

President George W. Bush on Tuesday welcomed Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to the White House, where the two heads of state discussed a variety of issues, including trade,… Read more »

Liberia: Profiles - Deputy Minister of Health Tornorlah Varpilah

Deputy Minister of Health for planning, research and development, Tornorlah Varpilah, stayed in Liberia through the decades of conflict, doing humanitarian work. He was often on… Read more »

Liberia: The Children Are Smiling But There's So Much More to Do - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told AllAfrica in a 1986 interview, shortly after being arrested and fleeing the country, that her goal in life was to "bring good… Read more »

Africa: Malaria Campaign Making Progress, Says Report

Four out of every five of the one million people who die of malaria each year are African children under the age of five, according to a new report issued by the United Nations… Read more »

Africa: AllAfrica Opens News Center and Health Office in Monrovia

AllAfrica Global Media today opened an online international news processing center in the capital of Liberia that will also serve as the hub for HealthAfrica. Read more »

Uganda: Medical Aid Dispute 'Misunderstanding.' Says NGO

The Ugandan mission of the aid organization, Médecins Sans Frontières-Spain, has described reports that it is administering HIV/AIDS and TB drugs that are not yet… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: End Sexual Violence in Eastern Region

In this statement, former UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa and current Co-Director of AIDS-Free World Stephen Lewis calls for a new UN initiative to end sexual violence in the… Read more »

South Africa: Fired Deputy - Who's to Blame?

The dismissal of the Deputy Minister of Health was a wretched day for South Africa. The country lost one of its strongest unifying forces in the struggle against the AIDS pandemic. Read more »

South Africa: Mbeki Defends Minister's Firing

President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa has publicly defended his decision to fire deputy health minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, citing her "inability to work as part of a… Read more »

South Africa: President Fires Deputy Health Minister

South African President Thabo Mbeki has fired his deputy health minister amidst controversy over a foreign trip and reported disagreements with the health minister over HIV/Aids… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Representative Lantos Calls for More Support for Aids Program

Representative Tom Lantos (Democrat – California) has called on the United States Congress to support President George W. Bush's efforts to renew the President's… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Celebrity Campaign Raises $25 Million

The RED Campaign, a celebrity-backed effort to raise money for for the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, has recently reported that its partners have raised U.S.… Read more »

Africa: Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease Rise to Western Levels

Non-communicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes, obesity, and heart disease are rising in poor countries, says the World Bank in a new report. Read more »

Ethiopia: A Walk To Beautiful

Of the many tragedies that occur daily in Ethiopia, perhaps the most foreign to those living in industrialized nations is the medical condition, obstetric fistula, which afflicts… Read more »

Mali: Film Review - 'Everything's Fine'

Everything's Fine (Toro Si Te) is a wonderful, humorous and serious documentary that tells the story of Dr. Seydou Konaté, a Malian doctor working in Nongon, a small… Read more »

Africa: Aids Battle Makes Progress But More Work Needed, Says World Bank

Africa is making progress in the fight against HIV, according to a report just released by the World Bank. Read more »

Africa: Bush Launches New Funding Plan for HIV/Aids

U.S President George W. Bush is asking Congress to follow up his Administration's current program to fight HIV/Aids around the world with a new plan doubling spending to $30… Read more »

Eswatini: Report Links Discrimination to HIV

Gender-based discrimination in Botswana and Swaziland is integrally linked to the high rates of HIV infection among women in those countries, a study by Physicians for Human Rights… Read more »

Africa: 1,500 to Gather for International Women and Aids Summit

Urgent action to cut rising HIV infection rates among women and girls will be planned at what is billed as the world's first international summit on women and Aids. Read more »

Africa: 'Gigantic Steps Forward' in Fight Against Malaria

Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), an international non-profit organization involved in the research and development of anti-malarial medicines, is hosting its seventh annual… Read more »

Africa: Setting a Timetable to Defeat Malaria

For too many years, efforts to treat and bring malaria under control have been under-funded, under-researched and poorly coordinated. This is now changing. There is now hope on the… Read more »

Africa: Scaling Up Bed Net Production to Fight Malaria

As Africa Malaria Day 2007 approached, AllAfrica talked to Robin Slatter, business development manager for global vector control at Sumitomo Chemical, which is manufacturing… Read more »

Africa: Fake Drugs are 'Everyone's Problem'

When intellectual property rights protections fail, the results can be deadly. During a meningitis epidemic in Niger in 1995, more than 50,000 people were inoculated with fake… Read more »

Tanzania: We Can Beat Malaria Now

Today we commemorate Africa Malaria Day around the globe. Malaria transmitting mosquitoes have thrived in the sub-Saharan African climate and left countless families, villages and… Read more »

Africa: New Hope for Rolling Back Malaria

Malaria kills an African child every 30 seconds and is one of the continent's leading causes of death - the leading cause in many countries. Africa accounts for as many as 90%… Read more »