
Was HIV only SA's 9th leading cause of death in 2006? Why Mbeki’s claim is misleading
Problems with the way HIV-related deaths are captured on official death certificates vastly underestimate the true death toll of the virus.
Problems with the way HIV-related deaths are captured on official death certificates vastly underestimate the true death toll of the virus.
US fact-checking site Politifact found that there are close to 600 doctors working in Malawi - not 300 as an international anti-poverty grou...
An Australian doctor claimed that his treatment of milk from goats with arthritis can cure HIV. But he's taken a nugget of science and twis...
Is a vaccine against whooping cough the "most likely triggering cause" of microcephaly in Brazilian babies? US fact-checking site Politifact...
A BBC.com headline, which implied that teenage pregnancy is on the rise in Africa, is not supported by the best available data.
Was less than US$100 million invested in research and development for TB last year? It turns out that this figure is the pharmaceutical indu...
Earlier this year a science news website claimed that an African child dies of malaria every 30 seconds. But the latest and best estimate sh...
Despite significant improvements in HIV prevention, new infections continue to occur among young people. But are nearly three-quarters of Af...
Africa’s biggest economy, with the largest population, spends less on health than Angola, South Sudan and Ethiopia. Or so Nigeria’s health m...