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Canadian researchers have identified protein biomarkers that may let doctors detect earlier two crippling malaria variations – one that develops in the placenta of pregnant women affecting countless unborn children, the other, cerebral malaria, that develops in the brain's blood vessels – malaria's most deadly form.

Under the chairmanship of Mr. Richard Muyungi of Tanzania, the Adaptation Fund Board concluded its inaugural meeting in Bonn Friday in what is widely seen as a major step forward in delivering funding for developing countries to deal with the impacts of climate change. UN efforts expected to usher In new era in environmental financing

The International Monetary Fund’s macroeconomic policies are interfering with poor countries’ spending on health, members of Kenya’s civil society have said.

Reports from Tanzania say there was scare at the Dar es Salaam port when suspect cargo alleged to be carrying more than 12,000 metric tonnes of bright yellow sulfur, a highly toxic chemical, caught fire.

Kenya’s scientists in the academia hold as varied views on biotechnology as the laymen and the debate on the subject is not about to subside in the country.

The fight against tuberculosis is far from being won because of HIV and because of extreme drug-resistant TB(XDR-TB)cases recently recorded in Kenya.

Even as the Uganda government becomes the latest country to receive support from the Global Fund’s emergency fund to procure Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)—the combination of antiretrovirals (ARVs) for the treatment of HIV infection to address the current shortage for the next three months, experts who recently met at the 5^th International AIDS Conference on Pathogenesis, Treatment and Preevention said with an estimated 7,400 new infections still occurring every day, effective strategies for preventing the spread of HIV still needed to be found.