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Botswana lifts ban on SA vegetable imports

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Safe and nutritious food – healthy communities

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Mosquito nets are often used where malaria is common. Shutterstock

#WorldMalariaDay: As a Malian, the slogan 'zero malaria starts with me' has special meaning

Mamadou Coulibaly 25 Apr 2019

Malaria detection campaign in the Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina-Faso) in collaboration with the Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé. Elena

#WorldMalariaDay: What we're doing in Burkina-Faso to help stop it

Elena Gómez Díaz 25 Apr 2019

Human milk banks collect, pasteurise, test, store, and distribute donated breastmilk. NataBU/Shutterstock

Kenyan hospital opens human milk bank - a rarity in sub-Saharan Africa

Elizabeth Kimani-Murage 23 Apr 2019

Sports science needs to race towards a different approach. kentoh/Shutterstock

How sports science in Africa can be taught and thought about differently

15 Apr 2019

A woman receiving an oral cholera vaccine in Beira, Mozambique. Celeste Mac-Arthur

Cyclone Idai is over - but its health effects will be felt for a long time

Kerrigan McCarthy & Lucille Blumberg 15 Apr 2019

World Bank unveils plan to strengthen human capital in Africa

World Bank unveils plan to strengthen human capital in Africa

12 Apr 2019

Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa

The app that tracks diseases and saves lives in Africa

11 Apr 2019

Bizcommunity sends a clear message that Africa is open for business

Bizcommunity sends a clear message that Africa is open for business

dotAfrica 9 Apr 2019

Bizcommunity launches BIZ | Daily top story headlines

Bizcommunity launches BIZ | Daily top story headlines

Bizcommunity.com 8 Apr 2019

With the right skills and infrastructure, Africa can boost its genomics research efforts. Dmytro Zinkevych/Shutterstock

Africa needs a heavy dose of investment in genomics research

Jenniffer Mabuka-Maroa 5 Apr 2019

Africa rising as Bizcommunity launches .Africa domain

Africa rising as Bizcommunity launches .Africa domain

Bizcommunity.com 2 Apr 2019

Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa

WHO report: 630-million years of healthy life lost in Africa

28 Mar 2019

Tools like the WHO checklist can lead to better surgical outcomes in countries with limited resources. Shutterstock

What African countries can do about ensuring safer surgery

Isabella Epiu 27 Mar 2019

Maternal mortality is much higher in Africa than in high-income countries. Shutterstock

The death rate for mothers having C-sections is 50 times higher in Africa

Bruce M Biccard 26 Mar 2019

Dr Tshepo Motsepe

Africa-Asia partner to improve healthcare

20 Mar 2019

Facebook wants to stop spreading fake news about vaccines

Facebook wants to stop spreading fake news about vaccines

Shereesa Moodley 11 Mar 2019

Dedicated cannabis expo set for Cape Town in April

Dedicated cannabis expo set for Cape Town in April

11 Mar 2019

Health workers in Liberia at the height of the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak. Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA

Ebola in the DRC: the race is on between research and the virus

Yap Boum, Jean-Jacques Muyembe & Sabue Mulangu 8 Mar 2019

Zipline drone distribution centre, Rwanda.

#DesignIndaba2019: Bringing 'Wakanda' to life with life-saving drones

Louise Marsland 1 Mar 2019

An aid worker collects health and nutrition data in northeastern Kenya. Shutterstock

Why fixing Africa's data gaps will lead to better health policies

27 Feb 2019

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Mosquito nets are often used where malaria is common. Shutterstock

#WorldMalariaDay: As a Malian, the slogan 'zero malaria starts with me' has special meaning

Mamadou Coulibaly 25 Apr 2019

Malaria detection campaign in the Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina-Faso) in collaboration with the Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé. Elena

#WorldMalariaDay: What we're doing in Burkina-Faso to help stop it

Elena Gómez Díaz 25 Apr 2019

Human milk banks collect, pasteurise, test, store, and distribute donated breastmilk. NataBU/Shutterstock

Kenyan hospital opens human milk bank - a rarity in sub-Saharan Africa

Elizabeth Kimani-Murage 23 Apr 2019

Sports science needs to race towards a different approach. kentoh/Shutterstock

How sports science in Africa can be taught and thought about differently

15 Apr 2019

A woman receiving an oral cholera vaccine in Beira, Mozambique. Celeste Mac-Arthur

Cyclone Idai is over - but its health effects will be felt for a long time

Kerrigan McCarthy & Lucille Blumberg 15 Apr 2019

World Bank unveils plan to strengthen human capital in Africa

World Bank unveils plan to strengthen human capital in Africa

12 Apr 2019

Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa

The app that tracks diseases and saves lives in Africa

11 Apr 2019

Bizcommunity sends a clear message that Africa is open for business

Bizcommunity sends a clear message that Africa is open for business

dotAfrica 9 Apr 2019

Bizcommunity launches BIZ | Daily top story headlines

Bizcommunity launches BIZ | Daily top story headlines

Bizcommunity.com 8 Apr 2019

With the right skills and infrastructure, Africa can boost its genomics research efforts. Dmytro Zinkevych/Shutterstock

Africa needs a heavy dose of investment in genomics research

Jenniffer Mabuka-Maroa 5 Apr 2019

Africa rising as Bizcommunity launches .Africa domain

Africa rising as Bizcommunity launches .Africa domain

Bizcommunity.com 2 Apr 2019

Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa

WHO report: 630-million years of healthy life lost in Africa

28 Mar 2019

Tools like the WHO checklist can lead to better surgical outcomes in countries with limited resources. Shutterstock

What African countries can do about ensuring safer surgery

Isabella Epiu 27 Mar 2019

Maternal mortality is much higher in Africa than in high-income countries. Shutterstock

The death rate for mothers having C-sections is 50 times higher in Africa

Bruce M Biccard 26 Mar 2019

Dr Tshepo Motsepe

Africa-Asia partner to improve healthcare

20 Mar 2019

Facebook wants to stop spreading fake news about vaccines

Facebook wants to stop spreading fake news about vaccines

Shereesa Moodley 11 Mar 2019

Dedicated cannabis expo set for Cape Town in April

Dedicated cannabis expo set for Cape Town in April

11 Mar 2019

Health workers in Liberia at the height of the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak. Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA

Ebola in the DRC: the race is on between research and the virus

Yap Boum, Jean-Jacques Muyembe & Sabue Mulangu 8 Mar 2019

Zipline drone distribution centre, Rwanda.

#DesignIndaba2019: Bringing 'Wakanda' to life with life-saving drones

Louise Marsland 1 Mar 2019

An aid worker collects health and nutrition data in northeastern Kenya. Shutterstock

Why fixing Africa's data gaps will lead to better health policies

27 Feb 2019

YouTube pulls ads on anti-vax channels

YouTube pulls ads on anti-vax channels

26 Feb 2019

Grant aims at improving public health supply chains in Africa

Grant aims at improving public health supply chains in Africa

22 Feb 2019

International push to improve food safety

International push to improve food safety

18 Feb 2019

5 ways our food supply chain will transform in 5 years

5 ways our food supply chain will transform in 5 years

14 Feb 2019

Mali was one of the West African countries affected by the biggest Ebola outbreak ever recorded from 2014 to 2016. Shutterstock

Why Ebola vaccine on trial in the DRC is raising hopes

Shirin Ashraf & Arthur Wickenhagen 11 Feb 2019

Personalised medicine aims to tailor treatment according to each person’s genetic makeup. Shutterstock

Why African countries need to give genomic research a major boost

Lamech Mwapagha 30 Jan 2019

Healthworkers vaccinated against Ebola in South Sudan

29 Jan 2019

10 tech startups to participate in Airbus, GIZ #Africa4Future programme

10 tech startups to participate in Airbus, GIZ #Africa4Future programme

21 Jan 2019

Why does malaria recur? How pieces of the puzzle are slowly being filled in

Miles B Markus 17 Jan 2019

UNWTO, the European Travel Commission launch new health tourism report

UNWTO, the European Travel Commission launch new health tourism report

28 Dec 2018

Zim casualty doctors join strike

Zim casualty doctors join strike

27 Dec 2018

Professor Kelly Chibale. Photo: Je'nine May

R&D is the pipeline for science jobs in Africa

5 Dec 2018

The life expectancy improvements in sub-Saharan Africa vary between men and women. Shutterstock

Lifestyle diseases could scupper Africa's rising life expectancy

Charles Shey Wiysonge 27 Nov 2018

Scientists analysing data at the South-South Malaria Research Partnership project laboratory in Kenya. Flora Mutere-Okuku

Novel approach brings African scientists closer to a malaria vaccine

Faith Osier 7 Nov 2018

Women entrepreneurs win at 2018 Anzisha Prize Awards

Women entrepreneurs win at 2018 Anzisha Prize Awards

6 Nov 2018

There are concerns that Africa may be excluded from advances in genetic brain research. Shutterstock

Mental health genetics: African solutions for African challenges

Benyam Worku Dubale, Celia van der Merwe & Nathani 6 Nov 2018

Zambezi Valley may soon be too hot for tsetse flies

Zambezi Valley may soon be too hot for tsetse flies

Wiida Fourie-Basson 5 Nov 2018

First-for-Africa platform will advance gene research

First-for-Africa platform will advance gene research

Nicci Botha 31 Oct 2018

Airbus launches white paper on aerospace technologies in Africa

Airbus launches white paper on aerospace technologies in Africa

31 Oct 2018

Nigerian children receiving the polio vaccine in Lagos. EPA

Why eradicating polio everywhere has been so hard to crack

Melinda Suchard 26 Oct 2018