Science news articles about 'african cities'

... " continues Joy. "The real change is around cities – the 'peri-urban' areas – where woodlands ... waste disposal on aquatic ecosystems, then African cities can have an ecological footprint much larger ...

A study has found that around one third of antimalarial drugs available in six African cities are below WHO standards.

The growth of cities in colonial west-central Africa at the turn of the 20th century set the stage for the modern AIDS pandemic decades earlier than first thought, according to new viral archeology ...

GENEVA (AP) -- The U.N. health agency says it is investigating a mystery disease that killed three people in the South African city of Johannesburg....

... BMC Public Health compared four South African cities for the period 2001 to 2005, and report ... van Niekerk and Najuwa Arendse of the South African Medical Research Council and University of South ...