A planned U.S.-funded study of a hepatitis B vaccine drew widespread condemnation from researchers. Now the host country says it cannot proceed.

In less than a decade, Senegal has reduced its maternal mortality rate by more than 50%, from 392 deaths per 100 000 live ...

Hermina lives in the Central African Republic (CAR), Murjanatu in northern Nigeria, and Sabera is a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh. Though they live in vastly different places, the struggles they have ...

The U.S. is giving $1.6 million to researchers to study how the hepatitis B vaccine affects newborns in Guinea-Bissau. Local ...

Former House of Zwide actress Shelati Sekhabi says fake pregnancy rumours spread online and strangers approached her believing the claims were true. Shelati Sekhabi says the posts felt violating and ...

Migrant women living in Johannesburg say they use the birth control pills because they have no other local options. They cite language barriers and the barring of undocumented foreign nationals from ...

By Jessica Donati and Jennifer Rigby Jan 22 (Reuters) - A Trump-administration-funded study into the effects of hepatitis B ...

Most of the Earth is covered by water. About 71 percent of the planet’s surface is ocean, while the rest is land made up of ...

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa on Sunday declared a national disaster after widespread flooding that destroyed homes and killed ...

The pair were born Wednesday to first-time parents, Ilanga and Tandie, and are the grandsons of the zoo’s former African lion ...

Day and night, the soldiers were always there. Amid the palm trees and banana groves of a verdant suburb in Uganda’s capital, ...

South Africa declares a national disaster after severe floods kill over 30 people and displace thousands in its northeastern ...