By Joy Wanja Muraya | What began as a contest on who could swallow the most ‘illicit’ tablets meant to treat mental illnesses got David Mbugua hooked to the drugs. This set off experimentation with substances that could leave him with a light head after his peers ushered him into the world of drugs at […]

In the latest issue of Health Digest magazine, journalists from several African countries provide updates on immunization campaigns and the push to produce vaccines against Ebola, malaria and HIV. Correspondents review the long struggles to tame malaria and HIV, they report on the dissenters who still oppose vaccinations, and they examine the high cost of […]

Roselyne Sachiti of Zimbabwe’s The Herald was one of nine international journalists selected to participate in the Maternal and Child Health Reporting Fellowships in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Maputo, Mozambique, this past July. The program, supported by the United Nations Foundation and organized in partnership with the International Center for Journalists, aimed to promote and […]

In this moving and educational story published online by the Inter Press Service, journalist Mercedes Sayagues uses striking photos and alarming statistics to describe the tough conditions facing people living with HIV in Mozambique, which has the eighth-highest rate of HIV in the world. Mozambique struggles to contain the HIV epidemic with one in ten […]

A Nigerian editor whose investigative reports exposed companies that seriously endangered public health has won the 2014 Knight International Journalism Award, the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) has announced. The award recognizes two journalists annually for outstanding news coverage that makes a difference in the lives of people around the world. Oluwatoyosi Ogunseye, the editor […]