[Liberian Investigator] Gbarnga -- Arthur Bondo, coordinator of the National Union Organization of the Disabled in Bong County, has made a heartfelt appeal to the national government to increase budgetary allocations to the National...
[Bhekisisa] The national health department is convinced that all US government funding for HIV and tuberculosis (TB) projects in South Africa will end by September 30 and has calculated that it needs R2.82-billion to plug the gap for the...
[spotlight] In late-January, the US suspended billions of dollars worth of international aid, including for HIV-related programmes in South Africa. The South African government could have responded by triggering an emergency funding...
[The Herald] As the nation prepares to commemorate its 45th Independence celebrations on Friday, President Mnangagwa is set to avail a US$3 million revolving Presidential Women's Fund, a landmark initiative aimed at empowering women...
[Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative] Cryptococcal meningitis, the second-leading cause of HIV-related deaths, is expected to rise as access to care weakens and advanced HIV disease (previously called AIDS) increases.
[UN News] Escalating violence and deteriorating humanitarian conditions in and around El Fasher in Sudan continue to be of grave concern, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Samuel Dean, Executive Director of the National Commission on Disabilities (NCD), has called on the government of President Joseph Boakai to allocate at least 15% of its annual budget towards the development...
[Nyasa Times] A shocking new report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) reveals how a sudden suspension of U.S. foreign assistance has sent Malawi spiraling into its worst humanitarian crisis in decades, with...
[Dabanga] London -- The UK has pledged £120 million in new aid for Sudan at a London conference today, where the European Union and member states also committed over €522 million. A high-level delegation from 20 countries and...
[allAfrica] Geneva -- Two years of war in Sudan have created what is now the world's worst humanitarian and displacement crisis, intensified by extreme cuts to international aid, says the UN Refugee Chief Filippo Grandi.
[spotlight] Health research in South Africa has been plunged into crisis with the abrupt termination of several large research grants from the US, with more grant terminations expected in the coming days and weeks. Professor Ntobeko...
[MSF] Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the armed looting of our hospital and premises in Ulang, Upper Nile state, South Sudan. On the morning of 14 April, dozens of armed men stormed the MSF hospital and office...
[MSF] Sudan - 15 April 2025 - The war in Sudan between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) enters its third year and people remain unseen, bombed, besieged, displaced and deprived of food, medical care, and...
[MSF] Upper Nile -- Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) strongly condemns the armed looting of its hospital and premises in Ulang, Upper Nile State. On the morning of 14 April, dozens of armed men stormed the...
[MSF] As the war in Sudan between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) enters its third year, people remain unseen, bombed, besieged, displaced, and deprived of food, and basic lifesaving services. Of the...
[Ayin English] Humanitarian aid to Sudan, facing the worst famine in modern history, has remained limited due to limited access and funding. What little aid does reach the Sudanese populace may actually be even less than aid agency...
[Global Press Journal] Kampala, Uganda -- Could the loss of US funding be the catalyst countries like Uganda need to more fully fund their own research -- and focus on the continent's true needs?
[Bhekisisa] A modelling study shows the six-monthly anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir, could end Aids in SA by 2032 -- but only if between two and four million HIV-negative people in the country would need to use the jab every year over the next...
[UN Women] The number of people at risk of gender-based violence, including sexual violence, has tripled to over 12 million since the beginning of the war.
[UN News] Recent funding cuts have caused "severe disruptions" to health services in almost three-quarters of all countries, according to the head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
[ICRC] "The international community cannot turn away from Sudan. Millions of lives and the stability of an entire region are at stake," said Daniel O'Malley, head of the ICRC delegation in Sudan. "We must step up concerted diplomatic and...
[UN News] Hunger in South Sudan's northeast has reached a critical tipping point, with nearly 7.7 million people facing severe food insecurity as conflict escalates, the UN's emergency food relief agency warned on Wednesday.
[IPS] Washington DC -- This June, world leaders will gather in Seville for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), a milestone opportunity to reimagine how the global economy delivers for people and the...
[MSF] "The morning of the attack I was at home and my mother was sick. We ran to escape with my children. I carried my mother on a donkey cart as she could not walk," says a displaced woman living in Sudan's Nuba mountains. "When we were...