As Gavi prepares the first payouts from its $1.2 billion manufacturing program, the challenge shifts from financing factories ...

Historians note a shift from Eurocentric conceptualizations of science during the late nineteenth century. Spurred by a burgeoning print culture and widespread dissemination of news regarding ...

A newly published paper in Nature describes the complex process of launching a nine-country collaboration in Africa to significantly expand scientists' understanding of human genetic diversity. This ...

The Department of Science, Technology and Innovation has officially launched the country's inaugural National Science Month, ...

Every part of the global response to the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rests on an early act of African science.When reports of a severe illness cluster reached ...

Africa's health future hinges on its ability to finance and commercialize its own medical innovations, rather than rely on increasingly uncertain international funding, African science leaders have ...

The African Science Academy Development Initiative (ASADI), launched in 2004 by the U.S. National Academies and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a 10-year effort to strengthen the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a relatively rare situation in which the entire globe is grappling with the same crisis at the same time, albeit with widely varying approaches, resource levels, ...

If Science in Africa is to have a flagship, a glass and concrete symbol of what it is and what it is capable of achieving, the University of the Western Cape’s new Life Sciences building would have ...

A new University of Oxford study finds that almost half of the global population (3.79 billion) will be living with extreme heat by 2050 if the world reaches 2.0°C of global warming above ...

An continent-wide framework is necessary, argues an advisor to the New Partnership for Africa's Development To succeed in its aspirations of regional and global economic integration, Africa must ...