Governments should concentrate on providing basic health care and affordable drugs

More opportunities to innovate and create

Africa is finally making headway in its decades-long fight against malaria

A mobile phone plan in Kenya targets low-income groups

Higher wages and modern facilities are magnets for Africa’s health workers

Diabetes, cancer, heart and respiratory diseases will be the leading killers by 2030

Ghana grapples with making health care universally accessible

— Dr. Matshidiso Moeti

Prevention, treatment and care cut new infections by 14%

UN panel calls for new global accords to make drugs cheaper

Superstitution often blamed for acute mental health diseases

Many lured by affordable treatment, state-of-the art equipment, top-notch doctors and follow-up care

Mobile camel clinics, motorbike ambulances and other innovations for reaching rural folk

Encouraging local production, right policies the way out

Volatile global financial markets and weaknesses in global growth to blame

TICAD VI’s Nairobi Declaration is aimed at boosting economic ties

The North African country has now rejoined the African Union, having worked slowly but steadily to establish itself as a major economic force in sub-Saharan Africa.

African companies to bid for contracts around the world

Some migrate within Africa while others take the risky route to Europe

Ethiopia and Uganda praised for open-door policy