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High fertility and population growth rate undermining Uganda's natural resources and challenging national Development.

Mama Sarah Obama, step grandmother to US President Barak Obama is spearheading a grandmother initiative against malaria, Africa’s deadliest yet easily preventable disease. On Tuesday, she helped distribute insecticide treated bed nets donated by the Vestergaard Frandsen to thousands of her peers, who thanks to HIV and AIDS now mother their orphaned grandchildren.

Bananas are expected to resist the impact of the global financial crisis more than other agricultural commodities, FAO said in a report.  

A team of two youths from Germany are set to go on a cycle tour across Eastern and Southern Africa beginning today to highlight on the dangers Africa faces from climate change.

Tuberculosis advocates on Sunday during a session at the 39th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Paris discussed the importance of community efforts to combat HIV/TB coinfection.

Climate change is just the latest threat to Tanzanian agriculture. Projections show an upward trend in the country’s temperatures, which experts say, could reduce annual maize yields by up to 30 percent.

FAO is mobilizing its teams of experts to help ascertain if the new strain of H1N1 virus, which already killed many people in Mexico, has a direct connection to pigs.