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A research team based at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), MIT and Harvard, United States  has found reasons why the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic among women usually develop lower viral levels than men following acute HIV-1 infection but progress faster to AIDS than men with similar viral loads.

Researchers in the country have been are exploiting poor women economically mainly from refugee camps and prostitutes for embryonic stem cell research.

Lack of new research to address the problem of sickle cell disease in Uganda may lead to more deaths as impacts of climate change continue to be felt world over.

A group of leading African women scientists used the occasion of the visit by the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to urge both the US and African leaders to help put women at the center of efforts to address chronic hunger and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.

As developing countries confront the first global food crisis since the 1970s as well as unprecedented water scarcity, a new 53-city survey conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) indicates that most of those studied (80 percent) are using untreated or partially treated wastewater for agriculture. In over 70 percent of the cities studied, more than half of urban agricultural land is irrigated with wastewater that is either raw or diluted in streams.

HIV has spread quickly through southern Africa because historic traditions such as polygamy have found their way into the present under the guise of new trends.