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This new drug is for the HIV negative; it is not a vaccine or cure – CS Aden Duale
Lenacapavir targets those most at risk: discordant couples, sex workers, men who have…
Beyond the lab: The race to have GBS vaccines reach every mother, everywhere
For low-income countries, life-saving vaccines often arrive decades late. Scientists are now…
Together from the start: Tanzania unveils Zero Separation Care for mothers and newborns
A key inclusion in the unit is a Kangaroo Father Care (KFC)…
‘The hardest part is not taking HIV drugs, but hiding them’
We could stock HIV medicines, draft policies, mobilise donor funding, but adherence rested on…
The first 90 days: The slim window to shield newborns from sepsis, pneumonia, meningitis
Carried silently by millions of women, Group B Strep can turn a…
Hiding in plain sight: Inside Kenya’s 10-year march to defeating kala-azar
Asymptomatic patients and climate change silently drive 70 per cent of new…
GBS: The hidden bacteria driving maternal sepsis and stillbirths, yet rarely tested
Each year, 134,000 babies are born prematurely in Kenya, which has no…
‘My daughter couldn’t stand, climb stairs, hold a mug’
A cough and numbness led to panic, paralysis and a polymyositis diagnosis, a rare…
‘Our baby weighed 800 grams’: How fathers are helping preterm babies survive
Men at the coast culturally never got involved in Kangaroo Mother Care,…
