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Une fillette sud-africaine de 9 ans se recueille avant de prendre ses médicaments antirétroviraux. Photo: © Getty Images / Per-Anders Pettersson

Toll mounts in global AIDS pandemic

1 Sep 2016

The HIV/AIDS pandemic continued its deadly assault on sub-Saharan Africa in 2003, taking an estimated 2.3 million lives, infecting an additional 3 million people, and continuing its relentless spread...

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Counterfeit drugs raise Africa’s temperature

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Mothers’ health is improving across Africa

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Reconstructive surgery brings hope to survivors of genital cutting

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New advances can give women more normal lives
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Helping the ‘collateral victims’ of AIDS

2 Oct 2012
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Investing in the health of Africa’s mothers

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In Africa, AIDS often has a woman’s face

5 Sep 2012
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To save the lives of mothers, infants

15 Jan 2010
In an otherwise grim outlook for Africa’s hopes of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs...
Better health at the click of a button

15 Apr 2008
Medical records and other health information can now be easily shared via mobile phones and other...
Investing in the health of Africa’s mothers

15 Jan 2008
Listerning to a mother’s foetus in Liberia: African women not only need access to well-equipped...