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Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, gave the Kick Polio Out of Africa (KPOA) campaign a boost Tuesday by signing the football which is traveling from Cape Town to Egypt ahead of the 2010 World Cup. During the ball’s epic journey through 22 polio-affected and high-risk countries, Rotary clubs throughout Africa are mobilizing the public for massive immunizations and raising awareness for polio eradication. Gates lauded Rotary’s efforts to help kick polio out the continent -- and eventually out of the world.

Africa’s farmlands are beset with various types of insects whose impact on food production are immense. But one institution is not taking this lying down and is instead set for a fight with these insects through training young African scholars who are expected to rise to the insect challenge.

As Kenya government prepares to debate a policy that would mainstream and regulate the practice of traditional medicine in the country, traditional healers however are showing dissatisfaction with the proposed Bill and policy

Norway has joined up with the British Department for International Development (DFID) to finance a five-year programme for routine immunisation and primary health care in four Nigerian states.

Biotech crops are the fastest adopted technology in the agriculture sector in both industrialized and developing countries, but Africa is as usual being left behind, Chairman of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Application (ISAAA) Dr, Clive James warns

A Czech medical team of five students and two doctors have broken their professional schedule to help victims of the Sachangwan tragedy in Kenya.

The Secretary General of the UN Ban-Ki Moon said Monday at the opening of the Women Deliver 2010 that there is growing global momentum in the fight to save the lives of 10 million women and children every year by 2015.