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

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

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

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

Mafuko, the mom of the twins, was born in 2003 but her mother was shot dead and she later joined a different family, according to the Virunga National Park.

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

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

China clocked its lowest birth rate on record in 2025 as its population shrank for the fourth year in a row, deepening a ...

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 ...

South Africa on Sunday declared a national disaster after widespread flooding that destroyed homes and killed dozens, while ...