18 May 2009 - 13 Feb 2021
Monday, 18 May, 2009, 15:38 ( 13:38 GMT )
More than 300 million people around the world have asthma, and the disease imposes a heavy burden on individuals, families, and societies.
Africa must manufacture its own generic medicine if it is to continue to fight HIV/AIDS during the financial crisis and ensure its faltering economies can benefit from drug production, the African Union (AU) says.
World health officials tried to quell growing fears over swine flu on Thursday, as governments braced for a global pandemic and the United States set up a lab in Mexico to help diagnose and test cases.
Africans have more genetic variation than anyone else on Earth, according to a new study that helps narrow the location where humans first evolved, probably near the South Africa-Namibia border.
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