Encouraging the use of traditional African herbal medicines could prevent some of the one million malarial deaths on the continent, according to specialists attending a conference in Nairobi.

A pivotal efficacy trial of RTS,S, the world's most clinically advanced malaria vaccine candidate, is now underway in seven African countries: Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania, a statement made available to Leadership Correspondent in New York

THE timing and site of President Jacob Zuma 's landmark speech on HIV/AIDS last week were just too neat to be coincidental.

A malaria treatment derived from a locally-growing shrub is one of only a few herbal cures being presented at the ongoing international conference in Nairobi.

The ongoing international malaria conference in Nairobi is arguably one of the biggest such meetings to be held over a single disease in Africa.

At least 100 visually impaired South Africans will get a new lease on life following a donation of 100 corneas by the Sri Lankan Eye Donation Society on Wednesday.

The South African Medical Association (SAMA) has advised people planning to travel to the low altitude areas of the north eastern parts of the country to get a prescription for anti-malarial medicine.

Sharecare Ghana, a patients' organization of people with autoimmune and neurological diseases, together with their families, friends, and the professionals taking care of them, has in a petition to the Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health, Ministry of

We all too often look at the question of abandoned children as an imported model; a phenomenon that is not only unusual in our known mores, but rather something exotic and, sometimes, an issue for academic discussion.

The Likemind Friends Association The Gambia, last Thursday donated food items to the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital (RVTH), SOS children's village and the Mile 2 prison. The donated items included rice and cooking oil.

The Executive Director, National Veterinary Research Institute (NVRI), Dr. Lami Hannatu Lombi, has disclosed that avian influenza known as bird flu, the highly pathogenic H5N1 subtype has ravaged the poultry industry world- wide as it has caused several- human fatalities,

Former Head of State and All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) presidential candidate in the 2003 and 2007 elections, Major-Gen.Muhammadu Buhari, has responded to claims by the Presidency that he lacked the moral high ground to criticise the administration of President

Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, has commended Nasarawa State government's efforts towards eradicating guinea worm.

Zimbabwe's major pharmaceutical companies are facing collapse owing to the influx of cheap donor drugs, the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health and Child Welfare heard yesterday.

On the first day of the scientific program at the world's largest malaria conference, researchers, public health officials and policymakers took a hard look at current malaria interventions and presented evidence on what more must be done to improve access

The Adamawa State Commissioner for Health Dr Zainab Baba Kwanchi has confirmed a cholera outbreak in the state, saying many lives had been lost while hundreds were in hospital. A medical health worker in the state who pleaded anonymity said

The world's largest malaria conference opened today with a call for substantial and sustained support for research to guide evidence-based policies and the development of new malaria tools, which together could save countless lives. The 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria

None of all villagers voluntarily tested for their HIV ad AIDS status at Rusaba village in Kasulu district, Kigoma region, has neither been found to be suffering from the dreaded disease nor to be infected by the deadly virus.

TWENTY-Seven years in the fight against HIV, only 15% of the estimated 1.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda know their status. This is only 4% of all Ugandans.

Tough new anti-smoking laws have not filtered down to Cape Town's smokers, who are still puffing away in clubs and pubs.