Kenyan health sector at breaking point in doctors’ strike
Kenya’s public health sector is at risk of a collapse as a countrywide doctors’ strike stretches into the second month with…
Tanzania: AI Tool Used To Predict Mosquitos’ Age
Using machine learning techniques to predict the age of mosquitoes from different populations could reduce turnaround time for…
Investors pull funding from African Academy of Sciences, research crisis unfolds
Major African research projects have been disrupted after international donors withdrew funding from the continent’s science academy due…
Tanzania: Using bed nets in early life ‘ups survival into adulthood’
Children who sleep more often under insecticide-treated bed nets have more than 40 per cent higher likelihood of surviving…
Health workers ‘given incentives’ to push baby formula
‘Pervasive, misleading and aggressive’ marketing of powdered baby milk is damaging child health across middle- and lower-middle-income countries, a UN…
Kenya lockdowns ‘led to pregnancies, school dropouts’
Using lockdowns to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic significantly increased teenage pregnancies and school dropouts, a…
UDSM researchers to receive science communication training
Almost 100 researchers and PhD students at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania are next in…
Tanzania: Laser treatment could rival eye drops for glaucoma
In Summary Glaucoma affects one in every 25 people aged 40 years and above in Sub-Saharan Africa Laser…
Distribution key as WHO approves first malaria vaccine
In Summary Malaria vaccine recommended for use in children across Sub-Saharan Africa Historic moment’ broadly welcomed but concerns…
Tanzania’s first female doctor sees big strides
In Summary ‘I want to be a role model’, says Tanzania’s first female physician Trust in women doctors…