Migrant women living in Johannesburg say they use the birth control pills because they have no other local options. They cite ...

A planned U.S.-funded study of a hepatitis B vaccine drew widespread condemnation from researchers. Now the host country says it cannot proceed.

Global maternal mortality had declined, yet WHO data showed Nigeria, Chad, and South Sudan remained among the worst countries ...

Officials at the US Department of Health and Human Services, which awarded funding for the controversial study, say it will ...

The U.S. is giving $1.6 million to researchers to study how the hepatitis B vaccine affects newborns in Guinea-Bissau. Local ...

Prolonged heavy rains have caused deadly flooding across Southern Africa. Hundreds of people have reportedly been killed, ...

Hermina lives in the Central African Republic (CAR), Murjanatu in northern Nigeria, and Sabera is a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh. Though they live in vastly different places, the struggles they have ...

One of the critics of the Guinea-Bissau study, Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center in the United States and an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's ...

While the birth is sparking joy, infant mountain gorillas are vulnerable, and twins can be twice as hard for a mother to take ...

Africa. This is happening along the East African Rift, a long stretch of land where the Earth’s surface is slowly pulling ...