Young South African men undergoing traditional initiation practices are plagued by botched circumcisions, and numbers of them die every year. Now doctors at one of the country's ... Read more »
Many Liberians have begun to count the number of days remaining before the country is declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization. But is it that simple? Read more »
The government says it's ready to implement the new national Food and Nutrition Security Plan to address food insecurity, despite activists saying there was no public consultation ... Read more »
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has announced that more Americans were flown home from unnamed locations following the arrival in the U.S. of an infected American health ... Read more »
President Jacob Zuma has reiterated a statement saying that teenage mothers should be separated from their babies. Read more »
The head of the country's Incident Management Team, Tolbert Nyeswah, has announced that there has been no new case of the virus in Montserrado County - where the capital Monrovia ... Read more »
A report by the United Nations Development Group, a consortium of UN agencies, says in the best-case scenario, the mineral-rich region may lose on average U.S.$3.6 billion per year ... Read more »
The arrest of a 70-year-old woman who offered psilocybin - or 'sacred mushrooms' - during spiritual growth sessions has highlighted the illegal use of psychoactive sacraments in ... Read more »
The vaccine to be tested is based on Thailand's RV144 trial which was moderately successful at preventing new HIV infections. Read more »
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