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Scientists are breeding super-nutritious crops to help solve global hunger

Heather Ohly, Nicola Lowe 23 Jan 2018

Study: African surgical patients twice as likely to die

Study: African surgical patients twice as likely to die

5 Jan 2018

Antiretroviral treatment prevents the virus from multiplying and prolongs the lives of HIV positive people. Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

Kenya's HIV progress report: good progress, but also big gaps

Griffins Manguro 3 Jan 2018

Fewer crops are feeding more people worldwide - and that's not good

Fewer crops are feeding more people worldwide - and that's not good

Karl Zimmerer 1 Dec 2017

Efforts to tackle AMR on farms and in food systems gaining momentum

Efforts to tackle AMR on farms and in food systems gaining momentum

20 Nov 2017

Meet Africa's startup stars

Meet Africa's startup stars

20 Nov 2017

Pollution killed nine million people in 2015: report

Pollution killed nine million people in 2015: report

24 Oct 2017

Purple tea is taking over the world, one cup at a time

Sharon Mundia 5 Sep 2017

Slums in Nairobi, Kenya. Image source:

Invisible and ignored: air pollution inside the homes of Nairobi's residents

Kanyiva Muindi and Blessing Mberu 17 Aug 2017

WHO report: Kenyan cholera outbreak

WHO report: Kenyan cholera outbreak

2 Aug 2017

Three outstanding African innovators walk away with Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2017.

Africa's top innovators announced

31 Jul 2017

Cancer care comes to Western Kenya

Cancer care comes to Western Kenya

10 Jul 2017

Gary M Reedy, CEO at the American Cancer Society

Collaboration increases cancer treatment accessibility

3 Jul 2017

Sthembile Shabangu

Innovation is the key to keep Africa moving forward

Sthembile Shabangu 22 Jun 2017

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Scientists are breeding super-nutritious crops to help solve global hunger

Heather Ohly, Nicola Lowe 23 Jan 2018

Study: African surgical patients twice as likely to die

Study: African surgical patients twice as likely to die

5 Jan 2018

Antiretroviral treatment prevents the virus from multiplying and prolongs the lives of HIV positive people. Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

Kenya's HIV progress report: good progress, but also big gaps

Griffins Manguro 3 Jan 2018

Fewer crops are feeding more people worldwide - and that's not good

Fewer crops are feeding more people worldwide - and that's not good

Karl Zimmerer 1 Dec 2017

Efforts to tackle AMR on farms and in food systems gaining momentum

Efforts to tackle AMR on farms and in food systems gaining momentum

20 Nov 2017

Meet Africa's startup stars

Meet Africa's startup stars

20 Nov 2017

Pollution killed nine million people in 2015: report

Pollution killed nine million people in 2015: report

24 Oct 2017

Purple tea is taking over the world, one cup at a time

Sharon Mundia 5 Sep 2017

Slums in Nairobi, Kenya. Image source:

Invisible and ignored: air pollution inside the homes of Nairobi's residents

Kanyiva Muindi and Blessing Mberu 17 Aug 2017

WHO report: Kenyan cholera outbreak

WHO report: Kenyan cholera outbreak

2 Aug 2017

Three outstanding African innovators walk away with Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2017.

Africa's top innovators announced

31 Jul 2017

Cancer care comes to Western Kenya

Cancer care comes to Western Kenya

10 Jul 2017

Gary M Reedy, CEO at the American Cancer Society

Collaboration increases cancer treatment accessibility

3 Jul 2017

Sthembile Shabangu

Innovation is the key to keep Africa moving forward

Sthembile Shabangu 22 Jun 2017

10 nominees for Innovation Prize for Africa 2017

10 nominees for Innovation Prize for Africa 2017

19 Jun 2017

Ensuring safer pregnancies for Kenyan women in urban slums

Ensuring safer pregnancies for Kenyan women in urban slums

Blessing Mberu, Kanyiva Muindi, and Patricia Elung 25 May 2017

Malaria education in Malawi. Source: WHO/S Hollyman

#WorldMalariaDay: Vaccine trial to commence in 2018

25 Apr 2017

Dispute brews over plan to hire Tanzanian doctors

Dispute brews over plan to hire Tanzanian doctors

Verah Okeyo and Elizabeth Merab 5 Apr 2017

Professor Magnus Knebel von Doeberitz, medical director, University of Heidelberg, Dr Omenge Orango’o, Moi University Nairobi and Dr Gilbert Saggia, SAP Africa’s managing director: East Africa

Cervical cancer screening goes high tech in Africa

28 Mar 2017

Kenyan government challenged to pay striking doctors' salaries

Kenyan government challenged to pay striking doctors' salaries

Galgalo Bocha and Alex Njeru 29 Dec 2016

Kenya needs to combat NCDs through public private partnerships

Kenya needs to combat NCDs through public private partnerships

7 Dec 2016

Specialist training is the first step in fighting cancer in Africa

Rasha Kelej 3 Nov 2016

Internet.org awards African innovation

Internet.org awards African innovation

3 Oct 2016

Big business opportunities ahead for Africa - McKinsey

16 Sep 2016

Kenyan startup to launch 'Uber for ambulances' app

Tom Jackson 26 Aug 2016

Exciting future for continent that accesses the power of Internet of Things

Exciting future for continent that accesses the power of Internet of Things

Brett Parker 16 Aug 2016

Margaret Kenyatta and Markus Gemuen

#WomensMonth: Partnership to improve breast cancer care in Kenya

16 Aug 2016

Merck is sponsoring an oncology fellowship at the University of Nairobi

New fellowship to strengthen cancer care in Africa

11 Jul 2016

L-R: Farid Fezoua, president & CEO: GE Healthcare Africa; Jay Ireland, president & CEO: GE Africa; Dr Cleopa Mailu, cabinet secretary: ministry of health for Kenya and John Flannery, president & CEO of GE Healthcare.

New healthcare training and skills institute opens in Kenya

17 Jun 2016

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#YouthMonth: Soapie cleans up attitude to HIV/Aids

9 Jun 2016

Graphic of the CLC at Mandera

Developing a community of health

13 May 2016

African campaign reduces stigma and improves care around infertility

African campaign reduces stigma and improves care around infertility

8 Mar 2016

Giving Africa's medical innovations a global audience

Giving Africa's medical innovations a global audience

Leigh Andrews 21 Apr 2015

[MRMW] Making face-to-face research mobile to better tackle African HIV research

[MRMW] Making face-to-face research mobile to better tackle African HIV research

Leigh Andrews 13 Nov 2014

Unicef's David Anthony says that education and investing in children are vital components in Africa's struggle to survive and develop its huge consumer market potential. Image: Unicef

Could Africa become like China?

Jana Marais 19 Aug 2014

Packaging in SA is always changing shape

Packaging in SA is always changing shape

Mark Allix 2 Jun 2014

Philips to establish research and innovation hub in Kenya

Philips to establish research and innovation hub in Kenya

26 Mar 2014

Translators without Borders ups humanitarian aid in Africa

Translators without Borders ups humanitarian aid in Africa

30 Jan 2014

Winners of the Pioneers of Health Challenge announced

Winners of the Pioneers of Health Challenge announced

11 Dec 2013

Counterfeit medicine trade targets Africa's poor

Counterfeit medicine trade targets Africa's poor

24 Aug 2013