Climate change is intensifying health threats across Africa, driving economic losses, slowing progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals, and worsening the burden of infectious diseases, food ...

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and UNICEF has announced a new agreement that will make the R21/Matrix-M™ malaria vaccines significantly more accessible and affordable, paving the way to protect more ...

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) has unveiled the ASSAf Food Safety Forum, a new national platform designed to tackle the growing threats to South Africa’s food system and safeguard ...

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is calling for urgent and coordinated action to end female genital mutilation (FGM) across East and Southern Africa, warning that millions of girls remain at ...

Kenyan lawmakers and health experts are sounding the alarm over the country’s rising maternal deaths, urging Parliament to fast-track stalled health bills and enforce stronger accountability ...

Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands have long been the epicentre of hunger and malnutrition, with communities trapped in cycles of crisis every drought season. For decades, government and NGO ...

On 17th November 2025, the world observed the first-ever World Cervical Cancer Elimination Day, calling on nations to “Act Now: Eliminate Cervical Cancer” through vaccination, screening, and treatment ...

For all its spectacle—an unprecedented early leaders’ summit, a fire in one of the pavilions, and a presidency scrambling to salvage ambition—COP30 will be remembered for something far more familiar: ...

New research featured in the abstract book of the World Conference on Lung Health (WCLH) has uncovered new harms presented by exposure to ambient air pollution, with additional risks identified in ...

The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday affirmed his commitment to Indigenous Peoples, underscoring the need to work side-by-side with them, whom he called “the most effective guardians ...

New research presented at the World Conference on Lung Health (WCLH), hosted by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), has spotlighted the unique burden of ...