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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

NEARLY one million babies are stillborn in Africa every year. Behind every stillbirth is a mother, a family and a story left untold.Most of these are preventable, many unrecorded, and too often ...

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, ...

Prolonged heavy rains have caused deadly flooding across Southern Africa. Hundreds of people have reportedly been killed, ...

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