Burkina Faso today became the first country to begin a nationwide campaign to introduce a new vaccine that promises to rid the entire region of the primary cause of epidemic meningitis, the United Nations health agency announced.
The first vaccine designed specifically for Africa, MenAfriVac is expected to help health workers eliminate meningococcal A epidemics in the 25 countries of the menin
LONDON — A generation of babies could be born free of AIDS if the international community stepped up efforts to provide universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and social protection, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
A report by the U.N. children's fund UNICEF found that millions of women and children, particularly in poor countries, fall through the cracks of HIV services either due t
The price of a life-saving vaccine against five deadly diseases is expected to drop further in 2011, allowing more of the world's poorest children to be immunized, the global vaccines group GAVI said Friday.
The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization said that thanks to increased demand for the pentavalent, or five-in-one vaccine and a reduced price offer by an un-named emerging market
A new UNAIDS report has shown the AIDS epidemic has been halted and the world is beginning to reverse the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. UNAIDS, the joint U.N. Program on HIV/AIDS reports at least 56 countries have stabilized or achieved significant declines in rates of new HIV infections.
UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibe, loses no time in announcing the good news.
Long awaited proof that mobile phone technology can be used by healthcare workers to save lives in Africa has finally been published.
Findings from the first scientific trial on the link between mobile phones and HIV treatment outcomes - conducted in Kenya by scientists from Canada, Kenya and the United States - are reported in The Lancet this week (9 November).
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Donors hope spirulina, a blue-green, protein-packed algae, labelled a "wonderful future food source" 45 years ago by the International Association of Microbiology, will deliver on its promise by the time a US$1.7 million cultivation project in Chad, funded by the European Union (EU), ends in December 2010.
"It's as close as we will get to a miracle food," said Mahamat Sorto, the UN Food and Ag
Research into the health of Africans takes a big step forward with the launch of the Human Heredity and Health in Africa Project.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the London-based Wellcome Trust are funding the project, with support from the African Society for Human Genetics.
Ghana has already gathered a number of successes during this World Cup. What is missing now is the most important match: the one between the Black Stars and malaria, an illness that kills 20 thousand Ghanaian children every year. Watch the video of the national team’s anti-Malaria campaign.
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Young people in Africa are leading a "revolution" in HIV prevention and driving down rates of the disease by having safer sex and fewer sexual partners, the United Nations AIDS program said on Tuesday.
The prevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS is falling among young people in 16 of the 25 countries most affected by the disease, a study by UNAIDS found, with many
A new study conducted in Africa has found that treating HIV-positive individuals with anti-retroviral drugs reduces the risk of them transmitting the disease to their heterosexual partners by more than 90 percent.
The data emerged from a six-year study of 3,400 heterosexual couples in Botswana, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia. Taking place in the study were HIV-infe
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