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Tremendous progress has been made in combating tuberculosis, Dr Jong Wook Lee, director general designate of the World Health Organization, said this week. Ten million people have now been successfully [...]

In some parts of Africa, more than 45 percent of adults are smokers, compared with 24 percent in the U.S. Smoke clouds fill many airliners, bars, restaurants, and even hospitals. […]

There is a holocaust going on in Africa. Nearly 30 million Africans--including 3 million children under the age of 15--are infected with HIM. To date, the response of the U.S. [...]

More than 100 African leaders from 15 countries, who attended Africa's first regional consultation on unsafe abortion in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in March 2003, called for strong action to address [...]

The spread of AIDS in Africa is driven not by unsafe sex but by unsafe medical practice, according to research published last week. The research, which analysed data on new [...]

Information on President George W. Bush's plan for Medicare reform and financing of AIDS treatment in Africa and Caribbean Islands is offered. Additional information on Democrats' position on the President's initiatives in the health care sector is included.

When Yinka Jegede and a girlfriend went to a Nigerian health clinic four years ago, a nurse delivered shattering news: Yinka was HIV-positive. The nurse then turned to Yinka's friend--and [...]

The world's attention is riveted on the unfolding events in Iraq. Indeed it has been held captive since the lead up to the aggression. So much concern about mass destruction […]

Aid agencies are accusing the world's richest countries of failing Africa once again, after the G8 summit in Kananaskis, Canada, ended with plenty of advice for the poorest continent but [...]

An analysis of the African AIDS Vaccine Programme (AAVP) focusing on the development of more efficient AIDS vaccines to treat HIV infected people in Africa is offered. Additional information on AAVP strategies to accelerate AIDS vaccine research and development in Africa is included.

A new campaign in Africa to control the deadly tsetse fly, the carrier of sleeping sickness, has been launched by the Organization of African Unity (OAU). The control programme is [...]

Sub-Saharan Africa faces enormous problems as it struggles with the AIDS pandemic, but the Western world can lend a vital helping hand. Today, most observers acknowledge that the biggest challenge [...]

Some 6,000 HIV-negative women from South Africa's Cape and Gauteng provinces, and Borswana, have been recruited to test science's latest preventative of HIV/Aids. A substance called Carragard, extracted from the […]

A new campaign to control the deadly tsetsefly (the parasitic carrier of sleeping sickness) in Africa has been launched by the OAU. Sleeping sickness affects as many as 500,000 people [...]

Joe Reed Lucid less often now. A fluttering, angry beating of the chicken's wings, and Jessie opens her eyes. She lies on a woven palm mat on the dirt floor. [...]

Public access to antiretrovirals for HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa is not affected by product patents. Additional information on drug patent issue and access to medicines in developing countries is included.

What would go well with an ice cold coke? Chips? A torta? Well, how 'bout a condom or two? In Africa, soft drinks and prophylactics will soon go hand in [...]

Issues concerning the West's approach to providing drugs and nursing services for u to 36 million people affected by the AIDs virus in Africa and underdeveloped countries are discussed.

June marked the 20th anniversary of the first clinical diagnosis of Aids, which at the dawn of the 21st century had emerged not only as the most devastating epidemic the [...]

The World Bank has initiated a Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Programme to finance African countries' health programs to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS. Additional information on countries' eligibility for health care loans is also included.

The AIDS crisis in Africa is examined in detail, including costs for companies, for national economies, and for travelers in the region.

AIDS Threaten an Entire Continent BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe In the far past, the 14th century to be exact, a great plague called the Black Death ravaged Europe. More than 75 million […]

PIETERMARITZBURG, HARARE, KAMPALA The AIDS virus has infected 47m people, and shows no signs of slowing. It cannot be cured. Can it be curbed? IN RICH countries AIDS is no […]