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The Kenyan government in partnership with agencies has launched a new road map that will accelerate achieving the millennium development goals on maternal and child health.

A US research team has identified chemical compounds that hold promise as potential therapies for schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease that afflicts more than 200 million people worldwide and listed among 13 most neglected tropical diseases.

AIDS-Free World today announced that it is launching a legal investigation into crimes against humanity occurring in Zimbabwe.

Prolonged drought, human /wildlife conflict and forest destruction in major National Parks have been cited as the enemies of wildlife conservation in the country.

Africa’s market for milk, meat and staple food crops such as maize, banana, sorghum, rice and millet stands at over $150 billion a year which is more than what it fetches from pet cash crops like coffee, tea and flowers.

Forty of the world’s leading climate scientists have signed an open letter demanding global leaders take bolder action against climate change. The joint statement – initiated by WWF and endorsed by recognised climate luminaries such as Sir John Houghton, former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – calls for industrialised countries to make a commitment, at the UN Climate summit in Copenhagen , to cut carbon emissions by at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2020.

A preliminary analysis by the UNICEF on nine sub-Saharan African countries who together constitute up to 50 percent of global population of children vertically infected with HIV  show that most of countries in the Southern and Eastern Africa would not meet targets set to combat mother to child transmission of HIV.