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The International AIDS Society (IAS) has criticized Pope Benedict XVI  for his comments on the role that condoms play in preventing the further spread of HIV he made while on a visit to Cameroon, his first tour to Africa, a continent bearing the brunt of the AIDS-related diseases.

An expert has called on African countries to adopt genetic modification of agricultural biotechnology to ensure high yield

African Indigenous Vegetables (AIVs) although important in many rural people’s daily food diets, they have however continued to receive minimal attention from agricultural research compared to exotic vegetables, Mary Lucy Oronje a PhD student at the university of Bielefled, Germany and a researcher said on Friday at a seminar held at  the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Nairobi headquarters. 

The Ministries of Health of Burkina Faso and Niger would be granted grants through the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) from the Izumi Foundation to carry out 20,000 sight-saving surgeries.  

Climate change has become firmly established as an accelerant to many of the factors which have put one in eight of the world's birds at risk of extinction,  publication of the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Specie assessment for birds released Monday has found.

African Mobile phone users are slowly but quietly being enabled to utilize the same handset for both code division multiple access (CDMA) and global systems mobile (GSM) cards. This is partly due to the development and manufacture of handsets that are compatible with both technologies.

An ambitious public health campaign involving government, International Trachoma Initiative ad other partners and using an integrated approach to combat malaria and trachoma in Ethiopia recently helped secure delivery of $180 million worth of Pfizer-donated antibiotic Zithromax that was used to treat over 8 million residents of the region during this MalTra Week.