FOR decades, African scientists have contributed essential data to global scientific research. Increasingly, however, they are no longer just contributors. Across the continent, researchers are ...

In the humid equatorial belt of Central Africa; where dense forests, heavy rains and winding rivers create ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes, malaria has long been a stubborn public health ...

African countries must not sign away their health data or release their pathogens in exchange for donor funding.

Hamburg, 11 March 2026 - A strong signal for international health research: The Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) has secured millions in funding as part of the third funding ...

Engineer Manu Prakash helped develop a malaria-finding microscope that works in low-resource settings, improving access to sensitive infectious disease diagnostics.

Tick-borne diseases are on the rise in the northeastern US, with many ticks carrying more than one pathogen. So reports a ...

Funding cuts over the last year or so have created a crisis for multilateral health institutions. Which institutions emerge from this crisis, and in what form, will have real consequences for the ...

A Zambian scientist is on a quest to prevent brain drain from Africa so he's established a state-of-the-art drug discovery lab in South Africa. The discovery of new drugs often takes place in ...

Nigeria launches $500 million SPIN irrigation and hydropower project Project will rehabilitate 40,000 hectares and improve water infrastructure Initiative aims to boost food security and benefit ...

DR Congo approves $7 million Kinshasa poultry project with Egg's For Congo Ten-year PPP aims to manage parent farms and industrial hatcheries Project supports efforts to reduce poultry imports and ...

Rice University bioengineer Omid Veiseh has been awarded a $2.2 million grant from the Gates Foundation to develop implantable cell factory platforms that can deliver therapeutic antibodies over ...