A South African court on Thursday sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her six-year-old daughter, in a case that horrified the country. Joshlin Smith went missing in ...

A South African mother and two accomplices were sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday for trafficking her then-6-year-old daughter, in a case that gained nationwide attention since the child ...

In these regions, life expectancy remains alarmingly low, driven by factors such as limited access to healthcare, economic instability, and the effectiveness of public health policies.

Animal Trypanosomiasis remains a significant constraint to animal health and food security in most African countries. The COMBAT project, coordinated by the French Agricultural Research Center for ...

Togo eliminated the disease in 2020, followed by Benin and Côte d'Ivoire in 2021, Uganda and Equatorial Guinea in 2022, Ghana in 2023, and Chad in 2024. The rhodesiense form of the disease was ...

A recent report from the World Health Organisation confirmed that Guinea, a country in West Africa has successfully eradicated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) disease ...

With Guinea, seven other countries have been validated by WHO for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis: Togo (2020), Benin (2021), Côte d'Ivoire (2021), Uganda (2022 ...

Malaria is one of the most serious threats to human life throughout the entire history of humankind ... The latter is the drug of choice in severe infection. 4. Human African Trypanosomiasis ...

In “The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus,” a college student balances her new independence while investigating the demise of her parents’ marriage. By Eleanor Dunn Eleanor Dunn is an ...

African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness ... The fly then becomes part of the parasite’s life cycle, helping it grow and multiply. After about three weeks, the newly transformed parasites make ...

Sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis ... Genetic mutations have simplified the parasite's life cycle, allowing direct infection of animals and potentially humans. Strains of these ...