The World Health Organisation (WHO) has emphasised that an experimental vaccine is playing a major role in controlling the spread of Ebola...
Shirin Ashraf & Arthur Wickenhagen 11 Feb 2019
All organisms are unique. Each having a set of genetic instructions for their build-up and maintenance. This set of genetic instructions is contained in genes that makeup a genome...
Lamech Mwapagha 30 Jan 2019
Airbus and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit have announced the top 10 African tech startups that will take part in the latest Airbus Bizlab #Africa4Future accelerator programme...
21 Jan 2019
There's a critical need to invest in a research & development (R&D) industry that could create a pipeline of jobs for science graduates in Africa...
5 Dec 2018
Malaria is still a major problem in Africa. There are over 200 million clinical cases each year and approximately half a million deaths...
Faith Osier 7 Nov 2018
Deworming has become a common practise across the world. It has proved very successful, reducing the burden of parasitic worms among children by more than 50%...
Justin Komguep Nono & Hlumani Ndlovu 10 Oct 2018
Nearly half of all deaths and about a third of disabilities in low and middle-income countries could be avoided if people had access to emergency care...
Paul Ouma & Emelda Okiro 14 Sep 2018
Grocery stores have been given the green light to once again stock processed meat on shelves and pack them in lunch boxes...
4 Sep 2018
Access to medicines is at the core of universal health coverage (UHC), one of World Health Organisation's main priorities, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...
30 Aug 2018
One of the main problems with plastics is that although we may only need them fleetingly - seconds in the case of microbeads in personal care products, or minutes as in plastic grocery bags - they stick around for hundreds of years...
John Meeker 15 Aug 2018
Footprint Africa Business Solutions has moved from IoT development into healthcare by creating Doc-in-a-box...
13 Aug 2018
Africa's new generation of leaders could learn a thing or two about how to become great, but it takes much more to become an extraordinary leader like Nelson Mandela...
Rudo Kwaramba-Kayombo 19 Jul 2018
A new international partnership has committed funding for the discovery of new drugs for diseases endemic to Africa over the next two years...
29 Jun 2018
Conflicts do not spare health systems. From Afghanistanto the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the effects that wars and state fragility have on healthcare provision are all too visible...
Jean-Benoit Falisse and Serena Masino 20 Jun 2018