South Africa: Medicinal Plants Support Men's Health in South Africa - Why This Knowledge Needs Safekeeping

Men's sexual and reproductive health may be awkward to talk about, but there's a need to do so. For example, about one-sixth of all couples worldwide have difficulty conceiving… Read more »

Africa: Are Meat Eaters Really More Likely to Live to 100 Than Non-Meat Eaters, As a Recent Study Suggests?

People who don't eat meat may be less likely than meat eaters to reach the age of 100, according to a recent study. But before you reconsider your plant-based diet, there's more to… Read more »

Africa: The Invisible Bubbles That Spread Cancer Could Also Help Stop It

Cancer is transported from one organ to another by invisible bubbles. Understanding these microscopic messengers could change the fight against metastasis. Read more »

Africa: What Is Nipah Virus? and What Makes It So Deadly?

An outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus in India has put many countries in Asia on high alert, given the fatality rate in humans can be between 40% and 75%. Several countries,… Read more »

Africa: Life in Fossil Bones - What We Can Learn From Tiny Traces of Ancient Blood Chemicals

Blood tests are useful tools for doctors and scientific researchers: they can reveal a lot about a body's health. Usually, a blood sample is taken to get a picture of the large… Read more »

South Africa: South Africa's Floods Turned Deadly Because Limpopo Wasn't Prepared

Limpopo, in northern South Africa, home to 6.6 million people, several large mines and the Kruger National Park (one of Africa's largest game reserves), experienced unusually… Read more »

Africa: Malaria Researchers Are Getting Closer to Outsmarting the World's Deadliest Parasite

Every year, malaria kills more than 600,000 people worldwide. Most of them are children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. But the disease isn't confined to poor, rural areas - it's a… Read more »

Africa: The Pandemic's Hidden Toll - Millions of Chronic Conditions Left Undiagnosed

When COVID hit, healthcare systems around the world were turned upside down. Hospitals cleared beds, routine appointments were cancelled and people were told to stay at home unless… Read more »

Africa: How the U.S. Withdrawal From WHO Could Affect Global Health Powers and Disease Threats

Hours after Donald Trump began his second term as United States president on Jan. 20, 2024, he signed an executive order to end American membership in the World Health Organization… Read more »

Nigeria: Medical Negligence in Nigeria - What's Known, and What Needs to Be Done

Medical negligence in Nigeria came to the fore when author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie accused a Lagos hospital of negligence after the death of one of her 21-month-old twin boys.… Read more »

Ghana: Ghana Collects Half the Blood It Needs - Digital Approaches Can Improve That

It is late, the ward is crowded, and the clock is moving faster than everyone would like. A doctor has stabilised the patient as best they can, but one thing is missing - blood. Read more »

Africa: Viruses Aren't All Bad / In the Ocean, Some Help Fuel the Food Web - A New Study Shows How

Virus. The word evokes images of illness and fears of outbreaks. Yet, in the oceans, not all viruses are bad news. Read more »

South Africa: High Cholesterol and Insulin Resistance Are Rising Among Young South Africans

In a small mining town in South Africa's Limpopo province, young people are showing worrying signs of diseases that were once thought to affect only older adults. Read more »

Ghana: Ghanaian Celebrities Are Dealing With Mental Illness Stigma Behind Closed Doors - Why Speaking Up Matters

Imagine living in a country where talking openly about depression or anxiety can cost you your job, your reputation, or even your freedom. That is still the reality in Ghana, where… Read more »

Africa: Viral Outbreaks Are Always On the Horizon

A new year might mean new viral threats. Read more »

Africa: HIV Funding Still Falls Short of Targets After Pledges - What's At Stake

The US government paused all foreign assistance in January 2025. This abrupt decision affected the delivery of life-saving HIV medicines and the provision of HIV prevention… Read more »

Africa: The Twelve Viruses of Christmas, and How to Make Your Own - Out of Paper

Viruses, as we all know, are invisibly small things that make us sick. But is that the whole story? Read more »

Kenya: Managing Conflict Between Baboons and People - What's Worked - and What Hasn't

Conflict between humans and baboons can tear communities apart. Shirley C. Strum has studied wild olive baboons in Kenya for more than 50 years. In that time she's come to… Read more »

South Africa: Food Waste in South Africa Is Dumped in Landfills - Study Weighs Up Healthier and More Sustainable Options

Every year, millions of tonnes of food end up in South Africa's landfills. This is a wasted resource that deepens environmental damage, worsens food insecurity and costs the… Read more »

Africa: Telling People to Use Antibiotics Responsibly Isn't Enough. What Will Work Instead

Antimicrobial resistance is projected to cause up to 10 million deaths each year by 2050, making it one of the most pressing global health challenges of this century. In 2021, an… Read more »

South Africa: Youth Workers Are Spreading Health Messages On Social Media - How to Support What They Do in South Africa

Mental health messaging on platforms like TikTok and WhatsApp is becoming common in the digital age. Globally, digital media technologies have become integral to how young people… Read more »

Malawi: How to Stay Healthy On HIV Treatment, and What Side Effects to Look Out for - Malawi Research

HIV treatment has delivered life-altering advantages. Antiretroviral therapy has led to a reduced mortality and improved life expectancy for people living with HIV. Nearly 41… Read more »

Africa: Inquiry Says Covid Lockdowns Could Have Been Avoided - They're Right

The UK was one of the most locked down countries in the world during the COVID pandemic, but this was not inevitable - it was a failure of public health policy. Read more »

South Africa: Long Covid's Hidden Toll - the South Africans Still Battling Fatigue, Anxiety and Memory Loss

"I feel better, but my mind isn't the same." Four years after the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, such comments are still heard regularly in many medical practices in South… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Hidden Stillbirth Crisis - New Report Exposes Major Policy and Data Gaps

Nearly one million babies are stillborn in Africa every year. Behind every stillbirth is a mother, a family and a story left untold. Most of these are preventable, many unrecorded,… Read more »