Fanning a passion for science could create a brighter future for Africa.
The TB drug is both affordable and child friendly.
African child tech innovators are changing the continent’s technology landscape by producing tech solutions to address issues in their communities.
Africa needs to increase its capacity to screen for sickle cell disease at birth.
Intramuscular injections can cause debilitating muscular complications if administered incorrectly.
Formula milk marketing poses a major challenge to achieving breastfeeding targets, writes Jackie Opara
A trial finds a typhoid vaccine to be 84 per cent effective in preventing the disease in children.
Women with health insurance were 15 percentage points more likely to have facility-based childbirth.
It is more common for African mothers to see a child die than have all of their children survive infancy.
Malawi’s debut of the rollout of a malaria vaccine in children under two years could help cut the disease’s burden.
Giving children rotavirus vaccine could reduce death from diarrhoea by almost a third, a study in Malawi shows.
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