HEALTH Glaxo offers free malaria research, vaccine nears GlaxoSmithKline PLC hopes to seek approval by 2012 for its experimental malaria vaccine and said on Wednesday it would seek only a small profit and ensure it is widely available in hard-hit countries. AFRICA: AIDS vaccine programme comes home In what is being hailed as a boost [...]
Barry Segal, founder of the Segal Family foundation, has joined our board. With generous support from his foundation, we are pleased to announce 4 new All For Africa beneficiaries; MacDella Cooper Foundation (Liberia), Nibakure Children’s Village (Rwanda), Kip Keino Foundation (Kenya) and Tanzania Rift Valley Children’s Village (Tanzania). MacDella Cooper Foundation, Monrovia , Liberia This [...]
HEALTH HIV infections and deaths fall as drugs have impact Greater access to anti-retroviral drugs has helped cut the death toll from HIV by more than 10% over the past five years, latest figures show. READ MORE LESOTHO: Mountain clinics bring HIV services to remote villages Isolated mountain communities hard hit by HIV and AIDS [...]
Message from All For Africa beneficiary Youth Action International. ” We are proud to announce that this year’s cohort of women have completed their program. Each of the women has been trained in a skill of their choice. They have now been placed in cooperatives and granted small business grants to start and run their [...]
Ahmed Kasawala doesn’t know the warmth of his mother’s embrace; she died before he turned two, leaving him to the frail arms of his grandmother. “I pray to Allah everyday to forgive us. Miriam was a good girl. I think she got it from the blood they gave her when she was in hospital,” says [...]
