A High Court judge and a top Law Society of Kenya official are among prominent personalities paid millions of shillings by the National Aids Control Council (Nacc).

NASA will use a new human centrifuge to explore artificial gravity as a way to counter the physiologic effects of extended weightlessness for future space exploration.

A new camera-in-a-pill can help doctors diagnose and evaluate diseases of the esophagus including gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), erosive esophagitis and Barrett's esophagus (a pre-cancerous condition) without the use of a traditional endoscope.

Canadian researchers have become the first to pinpoint specific behavioral signs in infants as young as 12 months that can predict, with remarkable accuracy, whether a child will develop autism. The preliminary findings, published this month in the International Journal

By studying animals, Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that the antibiotic minocycline might help alleviate HIV's negative effects on the brain and central nervous system, problems that can develop even though antiretroviral therapy controls the virus elsewhere in the body.

When residents of the desert town of Arlit, Niger's uranium mining settlement in the far north of the country, started getting increasingly sick, they questioned whether this had to do with their overexposure to radioactivity and called in French NGOs

South Africa's Medicines Council Control (MCC) says it does not want to raise confusion over the efficacy of AIDS drugs or vitamins, as both are useful in promoting health among HIV-positive people.

A new AIDS policy released in Kenya this week protects the rights of HIV-positive civil service employees, as well as those who join the service in future.

Most mid-sized South African companies are turning a blind eye to HIV/AIDS, despite forecasts that the epidemic is set to ravage the country's workforce, a new report by a leading global accounting and financial services firm has said.

UNAIDS has called for more action and less rhetoric from both government and civil society organisations if Africa is to succeed in its battle against the pandemic.

Kenya's health ministry and the medical charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), on Thursday inaugurated a new facility designed to provide comprehensive health care to people living with HIV/AIDS in the capital, Nairobi.