Using a New Language in Africa to Save Dying Ones
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Linguists see the computer as one important way of saving hundreds of languages in Africa, some spoken only be a few dozen elders.
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BELINGA, Gabon  - The pygmies of Gabon's lush northeast equatorial forests may soon be learning Chinese.
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A computer software to translate the Dutch-linked Afrikaans, one of South Africa&#39;s 11 official languages, has been developed by a South African firm, a statement said on Thursday.
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NAIROBI - When parents in Africa die of AIDS, their orphaned children often go to live with foster parents, in institutions or even on their own.
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Eighteen years ago, Tony Akeem organized a ceremony in New York City to honor the millions of Africans who died crossing the Atlantic during the slave trade. Similar observances have since spread around the world.
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Talking to youngsters in the language of text could increase their access to services.
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The World Health Organization has turned  to Africa -- where a child dies every 30 seconds from malaria  -- for urgently needed new stocks of a Chinese plant needed to  make a key antimalarial drug, a top official said.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Sister Leonella, a nun who devoted her life to helping the sick in Africa, used to joke that there was a bullet with her name engraved on it in Somalia. When the bullet came, she used her last breaths to forgive those responsible.
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There is no disputed that Tanzania's first President Mwalimu Julius Nyerere's policy of promoting Kiswahili as a national language helped a lot in binding countrymen together and highly promoted nationalism ...
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TUGELA FERRY, South Africa  - In a country where AIDS kills 900 people each day, full hospitals and beleaguered doctors are nothing new.
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A new journal focuses on common ailments that afflict the worldâs poor.
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Too many societies across the globe are losing the battle against AIDS. Despite increased global funding and access to prevention and care services, the disease continues to spread.
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Authors of a public-health article in this week&#39;s issue of THE LANCET (p 1984) are calling for urgent international action to address the chronic lack of investment in human resources which is limiting the chance of tackling diseases such as HIV/AIDS
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Deaths among children infected with HIV in Africa could be almost halved if all those with symptoms were put on a simple, cheap and readily available antibiotic, new research has established.
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Scientists say they may have found a new way to fight diseases like Aids and leukaemia.
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MTUBATUBA, South Africa  - Philisiwe Zulu was 51 when she got the call from the spirits of her ancestors.
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Mozambican journalists who attended a course on reporting about HIV/AIDS, held last week in the town of Namaacha, on the border with Swaziland, have set up a network pledged to produce educational and informative programmes on the disease that will use &quot;a