A cheap vaccine developed in India against rotavirus could add substantially to protection against diarrhoea.

Kenya is replacing an unwieldy drug-reporting process with an online system that allows healthcare workers to track safety in real time.

China and Africa are working on plans to offer African scientists training, carry out joint research and transfer technology.

Health services can use new technology to save lives, but only if local people and governments back the switch, an event has heard.

The protection against malaria provided by a leading vaccine candidate wanes over time, a follow-up trial has found.

Reducing schistosomiasis infections is a cost-effective way of also cutting HIV transmission in Sub-Saharan Africa, say researchers.

WHO researchers have pinned chronic kidney disease in Sri Lanka on heavy metals in agrochemicals.

Mobile phone health projects could drastically cut deaths from HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and pregnancy-related conditions, says report.

The cost and time of analysing drug resistance in HIV positive people could be radically reduced by a tool being tested in South Africa.

After a lengthy court battle, India has rejected a major cancer drug patent bid — meaning lifesaving drugs will remain cheap and accessible.

Children who had severe lung infections as babies were more likely to be readmitted to hospital with pneumonia, finds Kenyan study.

Infection rates for severe malaria are growing in Malaysia — accounting for 35 per cent of infections, compared to one per cent in 1992.

Trials in Sub-Saharan Africa have shown that daily HIV prevention methods are highly unsuitable for young women at risk of HIV infection.

A rise in antibiotic-resistant infections is a huge problem for developing countries that often lack the money to tackle them, a conference hears.

One of the driving factors in new HIV infections in Sub-Saharan Africa remains sex outside relationships.

Methodological issues are plaguing efforts to make the Global Burden of Disease study more meaningful and useful for developing countries.

Polio surfacing among vaccinated children in Pakistan may be due to poor facilities for vaccine storage and transport.

Global drug markets are awash with low quality medicine, partly because of inadequate testing in poor countries, says a US report.

A Swiss scheme to use technology to reduce poverty in poor countries has a robust and affordable medical scanner as its first target.