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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- Girls who give birth before the age of 15 are five times more likely to die in childbirth than women in their 20s, the U.N. said Thursday, focusing its annual children's survey on the health of their mothers....

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (MedPage Today) -- For infants with HIV, early anti-retroviral therapy reduces mortality, treatment failure, and disease progression, researchers here said.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- A medical trial involving 16,000 children across Africa will be a challenge to human, scientific and communications resources on the world's poorest continent, three researchers hoping to develop the first malaria vaccine said Monday....

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- Making tests and treatment for malaria free dramatically increases the number of people who seek treatment for the disease that kills 1 million people a year, an international medical aid group said Tuesday....

From the Johannesburg, South Africa Star, this story, entitled "Docs Ditched after Undesirable Diagnosis," has some eerie echoes of the past:

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The use of fluoroquinolone antibiotics to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis in children has given rise to Streptococcus pneumoniae that is resistant to levofloxacin (Levaquin), researchers here said.