sub saharan africa

MBABANE, Swaziland (AP) -- Hundreds of people are protesting in the small kingdom of Swaziland over claims that poor governance by sub-Saharan Africa's sole absolute monarch has led to a shortage of essential medical supplies and a failing economy....

Health officials say they will begin the roll out of a new low-cost meningitis vaccine for sub-Saharan Africa on 6 December.

Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, the region worst affected by HIV/Aids, are leading a global decline in new cases, says the UN.

(Brown University) A study by Mark Lurie of Brown University and an international team of researchers has developed the first statistical evidence linking mining to high rates of tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa.

The exponential rise in TB in the region had been attributed to higher rates of HIV, but this paper finds a more direct link between work in the mines and incidence of TB.

(Academy for Educational Development) In a decade-long initiative to protect millions of families from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, a US government-funded project helped sell 50 million bed nets in seven countries, crafted a voucher system to allow the poor to receive them for free or partial cost and created enough incentives for private companies that they invested $88 million to expand their businesses, according to results released today by AED at a conference held at the National Press Club.