South Africa made massive progress in reducing transmission of HIV from mothers to their babies. Even so, about 7 000 babies still contract the virus every year. Experts put this down to having the ...

A new fund that aims to prevent 300,000 health-related avoidable deaths in Africa has been launched with the support of a ...

Research led by Professor Adrie Bekker is paving the way for an important HIV medicine to be made available to neonates in a way that is both safe and much more convenient than previous options.

Pregnant women in South Africa face significant barriers to getting ... Those difficulties include inequitable access to quality maternal and newborn baby care; staff shortages; resource ...

This fund, over the next five years, will collaborate with 10 African countries to invest in the necessary products, people, and systems to enhance maternal and newborn health. The investments ...