Zimbabwe: Doctor Describes Human Rights Horror

Tuesday's arrest of Movement for Democratic Change leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, boosted the expressions of international outrage that began accelerating in early March over the… Read more »

Kenya: HIV Center Running Out of Space

The Coptic Mission in Africa has operated the Coptic Hope Center, a comprehensive HIV health facility, in Nairobi since 2004. The facility, which has been very successful in… Read more »

Africa: Bush Includes Continent's Needs in Annual Address

In his 2007 State of the Union address, United States President George W. Bush urged Congress to increase funding for Aids relief, malaria, and development in Africa. Read more »

Africa: First Ladies Call for New HIV/Aids Initiatives

Three African first ladies, Azeb Mesfin of Ethiopia, Jeanette Kagame of Rwanda, and Maureen Mwanawasa of Zambia, have called for new and further-reaching approaches to combating… Read more »

Africa: Businesses Urged to Help Employees With HIV/Aids

Panelists at an Africa-wide conference on the critical role of women and girls on the continent have urged businesses to support them in addressing the HIV/Aids crisis. Read more »

Africa: White House Pushing Anti-Malaria Campaign

Africans are dying from another killer disease that rivals the devastating effect of HIV/AIDS; and Americans can play a major role in helping to prevent it, says the White House. Read more »

South Africa: Strategic Concerns Deepen S.Africa-U.S. Shared Interests

Nigerian oil may be crucial to U.S. energy needs but South African President Thabo Mbeki seems to be the crucial figure in U.S. political needs in Africa, and also increasingly… Read more »

South Africa: Government Takes Lead in Tackling HIV-AIDS Crisis

The South African government has moved to end the years-long controversy over its policies on HIV and AIDS by unveiling the outline of a four-year national strategic plan to cut… Read more »

Rwanda: Second Annual National Conference on Pediatric Aids Opens

National attention is focused on Kigali as the Second National Paediatric Conference on Treatment, Care and Support to Children Infected and Affected by HIV and Aids opens Monday.… Read more »

Africa: Violence Against Women Inherently Linked to HIV, Advocate Says

In August, the Global Aids Alliance released a report, Zero Tolerance, that outlines the impact of violence against women and girls on the fight against HIV/Aids. AllAfrica's… Read more »

South Africa: Women's Empowerment May Take Two

This week, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan released two long-awaited reports on human rights issues affecting billions of people worldwide: the Study on Violence Against Women and… Read more »

Ghana: Women's Rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania

Voices of African Women: Women's Rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania Read more »

Africa: Former U.S. President and Nigerian Foreign Minister Tie African Development to Investment, Capacity Building

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria's foreign minister and former finance minister, used the occasion of a summit of African and African American… Read more »

Eswatini: Women Care for Families Struck by HIV Through Handcraft Trade

Women in Swaziland's rural areas, hard-hit by HIV/Aids, are responding to the family crisis through a private business that supplies 500 different outlets throughout the world with… Read more »

Africa: Diplomats Stage 'Africa Week' in Washington to Showcase What Africa Has to Offer

The African Union, whose members include 53 African nations, is this week marking the anniversary of the founding on May 25, 1963 of its predecessor, the Organization of African… Read more »

Africa: New Hope for Tackling an Old Scourge on Africa Malaria Day

African children are dying of malaria at the rate of one every 30 seconds. Take a minute to try to comprehend that number – and two more die. Read more »

Nigeria: Obasanjo Says Nigeria 'Vindicated' by Capture of Taylor, Speaks of Health and Agriculture Policies

During a press conference prior to his meeting Wednesday with U.S. President George Bush, Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo read a prepared statement about Charles Taylor, the… Read more »

Zambia: Food Program Helps More Get Benefits of HIV Treatment

Scattered wheelbarrows litter the ground outside Kanyama Health Center's anti-retroviral clinic in Lusaka, Zambia. Just beyond them, a long line of patients has formed, each… Read more »

Africa: Hedge Funds and Basketball Unite to Fight Malaria, Save African Children

On March 15 when the New York Knicks basketball team faces off against the Atlanta Hawks in New York's Madison Square Garden, shots taken in the stands may steal the show from… Read more »

Liberia: Liberia's Sirleaf Seeks Civic Action, International Aid

As President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf prepares to make an official visit to the United States in mid-March, pressure is growing for the addition of $80 million in reconstruction and… Read more »

Botswana: Men Should Be Targeted in Aids Fight, Botswana Health Minister Says

The fight against the HIV/Aids epidemic in Africa goes well beyond lab rooms and hospital wards and involves social and political issues at all levels of society, particularly… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Condom Conundrum: Fighting HIV in Africa

A controversy about preventing HIV/Aids - the most profound strategic threat to Africa's future - has been raging over the past year in Uganda, a country that registered one of the… Read more »

Africa: A Vital Weapon Against HIV/Aids

The worldwide destruction brought on by HIV/Aids cannot be overcome by an after-the-fact crisis management approach. We need a war mindset. The pandemic calls for a multi-pronged… Read more »

Zambia: National Malaria Control Program Expands, Intensifies with Lift from New Partners

Although largely unnoticed in the developed world, malaria strikes 500 million people a year and kills nearly a million children younger than five, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa.… Read more »

Africa: Mobile Medics - Study Finds Heavy Toll from Physician Emigration

Sub-Saharan Africa bears the greatest burden from the international movement of trained medical doctors to wealthy countries, according to a study published in Thursday's New… Read more »