Africa

An advanced HIV vaccine study in Africa was halted after data showed the gunfire offered limited protection from the virus, researchers said Tuesday.The vaccine manufactured by Johnson & Johnson is one in a long line that offers little…

Abebech Gobena was returning from a pilgrimage to the holy site of Gishen Mariam, about 300 miles north of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, when she saw the woman and her baby.It was 1980, and Ms. Gobena was passing through an area…

STEINKOPF, South Africa — On a moonless night in the desert in the far west of South Africa, Avrill Kaffer had just finished making a sale when vehicles with flashing lights emerged out of the darkness and an officer from the Stock Theft…

Employees of the Tunisian community saw them carry a coffin of a COVID-19 victim in the regional hospital during the coronavirus infections.Jdidi Wassim | SOPA pictures | LightRakete | Getty ImagesAfrica, where less than 2% of the…

A health worker tends to a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient supported by a mechanical ventilator and undergoing dialysis at the COVID-19 emergency room of the government hospital National Kidney and Transplant Institute in Quezon…

A medical worker injects a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine into a man at a hospital in Accra, capital of Ghana, on May 19, 2021.Seth | Xinhua News Agency | Getty ImagesAfrica will need at least 20 million doses of AstraZeneca's Covid-19…

People in Africa who are seriously ill with Covid-19 are more likely to die than patients in other parts of the world, according to a report published Thursday in the medical journal The Lancet.The report, which is based on data from 64…

An Israeli health worker from Maccabi Healthcare Services prepares to deliver a dose of the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine in Tel Aviv on February 24, 2021.Jack Guez | AFP | Getty ImagesThe coronavirus variant, first discovered in South Africa,…

"Oh, saying there are locusts in northern Kenya" doesn't help at all, "said Mr. Cressman." We need real-time latitude and longitude coordinates. "Rather than trying to rewrite the Locust tracking software for newer tablets, Mr. Cressman…

A nurse draws a vaccine for Moderna Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) on March 5, 2021 at the East Valley Community Health Center in La Puente, California.Lucy Nicholson | ReutersThe National Institutes of Health have started testing a new…