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The world’s largest conference on women’s health and empowerment in more than a decade opens on Monday, June 7, with a call to increase funding commitments for maternal, reproductive, and newborn health by US$12 billion each year. At Women Deliver 2010, more than 3,000 representatives from nearly 140 countries will highlight the urgent need to save the lives of the 350,000-500,000 women who die from pregnancy- and childbirth-related causes each year, citing new economic rationale for investing in women. 

A Kenyan chest specialist has said re-infection rather than relapse in treatment of TB as the root cause of its high prevalence in the country and called as “unpleasant truths” the linking of the disease  with HIV and AIDS.

Fredros Okumu of Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania is part of a group of researchers who have won a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to explore bold and largely unproven ways to improve health in developing countries. 

The founder and President of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, ISAAA, Clive James said today in Nairobi, Kenya that African governments should no longer listen to fears over risks associated with biotechnology rather they should be bothered with the risks of not embracing the technology.

Five marine turtles - four green and one hawksbill - in Kenya’s Kiunga Marine National Reserve have been tagged with satellite tracking devices in an attempt to learn more about their ecology.

South Africa has won a bid to host the 35th International Geological Congress (IGC) in 2016.