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A Tanzanian, Charles Shagi, a Program Officer for the African Medical and Research Foundation based in Mwanza, Tanzania, was honored Tuesday received the second Omololu Falobi Award for Excellence in HIV Prevention Research Community Advocacy. He won the award for his significant contributions to developing and sustaining community engagement and education programs that empower women and their communities to advocate from themselves and to become vital partners in HIV prevention research trials.

Although 70% of mobile subscribers live in developing countries where the mean penetration rate of mobile telephony rose from 13.8% in 2003 to 41.6% in 2007, yet HIV and AIDS programmes have failed to make use of it. Now however, a Dutch NGO wants to have this changed

Laxity and inefficiency has highly hit Kenya’s public hospitals---with patients in critical condition sleeping for hours on the waiting benches and corridors as they wait to be attended to by nurses and doctors.

Kenya is faced with a more stubborn strain of the AH1N1 virus although the virulence of the flu still remains mild.

New HIV infections and deaths fell in 2007, according to the 2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic released by UNAIDS and sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the world region hardest-hit by HIV.

In 1976, hundreds of black school children died in Soweto, South Africa protesting inferior quality of education they were getting and demanding their right to be taught in their own language--- leading to OAU to set aside a day on the 16^th of every June to their memory.

The Government of Kenya has approved a complete absorption of more than 870 health workers contracted over the past three years through an Emergency Hiring Plan to address the country's severe shortage of health professionals.