Marc Hofer/UNESCO

(file photo) At a hospital in Pallisa District, healthworkers have built a makeshift shelter under a tree to help mothers deliver their babies, Daily Monitor has learnt.

Claire Barrault/ECHO

Following the tragic killings two employees, the medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières sees itself forced to end all activities in Somalia's capital, including the closure of two separate 120-bed medical facilities.

Edward Echwalu/IRIN

In some parts of western Tanzania, circumcision levels are as low as 20 percent but a recently launched program aims to circumcise 2.8 million males aged between 10 and 34 within five years.

Sasol

Reducing methane and black carbon emissions could quickly tackle climate change while improving food security and people's health, especially in developing countries, a study says.

Gavi Alliance

Information relating to tropical diseases is essential for planning and implementing cost-effective, sustainable control interventions in areas where there is limited knowledge of disease distribution, researchers say.

IRIN

The U.S. National Institutes of Health is releasing research findings that could have a direct effect on the well-being of the millions of children, adolescents and young adults infected with HIV or with fully developed Aids.

Glenna Gordon

(file photo) Prisons are high-risk environments for the transmission of HIV, due to the prevalence of hard drugs, violence and sexual relations.

Business Daily

Cervical cancer affects millions of Zambian women each year. But it is quickly being brought under control thanks to new vaccinations, screening programmes and possibly even former U.S. president George Bush.

Stephen Mudiari/ Daily Nation

A recent report estimates that nine African countries have lost U.S.$2 billion worth of investment in training and educating doctors who have subsequently migrated abroad. It needn't be this way.

Gates Foundation

At the Malaria Forum hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in October, the latest findings on what is currently the most viable malaria vaccine candidate in medical history, known as RTS,S, were announced.

Glenna Gordon/IRIN

A young man has taken a bold step by trekking across Gambia and campaigning against the HIV/Aids epidemic.

IRIN

(file photo) An HIV/Aids orphan sits on an old bus seat. It's been a roller coaster of a year regarding HIV and Aids. And with new evidence of the effectiveness of treatment as prevention, experts are increasingly talking about "the end of Aids".

Daily Nation

While antiretroviral drugs have significantly improved the life expectancy of people living with HIV, the virus can make people more susceptible to non-communicable diseases.