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In Cameroon with UNITAID: Keeping HIV Patients Alive and Well
Beatrice didn’t want us to take her picture. Neither did she want me to use her real name. Most of her friends and family don’t even know she’s HIV positive…
Cameroon is Bleeding Out
Many patients die in hospitals due to the lack of blood. Michèle Akono’s niece has sickle-cell disease. The three-year-old girl was admitted at the Yaoundé Central Hospital and in urgent…
Breakthrough in the fight against HIV (video)
New research says early doses of antiretrovirals can reduce HIV contagiousness. The fight for global access to anti-Aids drugs has been given added urgency. A research study of more than 1,700…
Health & Wellness: The Black Woman`s Guide to Hair Loss
Hair is big thing with black women- and women in general. And that’s why hair loss can become a very traumatic experience for a woman. Sometimes the hair loss is…
Africa: HIV Research ‘On the Rise’
Oudtshoorn — Research on HIV/AIDS is on the rise in South Africa, a country with the largest number of HIV infections in the world, while Western research efforts have levelled…
Top 10 Thoughts a Woman Has When She’s Pregnant!
Maybe you bought that pregnancy test (or maybe 3 or 4), and with much trepidation, you wait those excruciating 10 minutes to see if your morning pee will bring forth…
Mammograms Before 50: Worth it?
You might expect that a new study out of Sweden of roughly a million women, suggesting a 26 percent mortality reduction with routine mammography in women in their 40s, would…
Curvy women ‘live longer’
A heavy rear can guarantee your chances of living longer, says a new study. This means that Jennifer Lopez, Nigella Lawson and Beyonce as well as other curvy women are in…
Africa: Modified Bananas Could Reduce Maternal And Child Mortality
Kampala — Africa’s high rates of maternal and child mortality could be solved through the development of a bio-fortified genetically modified banana as preliminary results of a joint research project…
Nobel Awarded to British Scientist for In-Vitro Fertilization
The Nobel prize for medicine was awarded to the British scientist who pioneered in-vitro fertilization, a procedure that has helped in the conception and birth of four million people around…
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