London, Nov. 8, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Scientists at U.S.-based Abbot Laboratories report they have confirmed a new strain of HIV for the first time in almost two decades. The new strain is a part of the same family of virus subtypes that have fueled the global HIV pandemic.  The strain, HIV-1 Group M subtype L, has been recorded in three people ...

London, Nov. 3, 2019 (AltAfrica)- A US judge has temporarily blocked a rule proposed by President Donald Trump that would require immigrants to prove they will have health insurance within 30 days of arrival in the US, or can pay for medical care. Judge Michael Simon, a district judge in Oregon, granted a preliminary injunction ...

London, Oct. 11, 2019 (AltAfrica)-U.S. infections from three sexually transmitted diseases have risen for the fifth consecutive year. More than 1.7 million cases of chlamydia (kluh-MID’-ee-uh) were reported last year. The infection rate rose 3% from 2017. READ ALSO: GHANA’S POWER AUTHORITY COMPLETES FIRST ROOFTOP SOLAR PROJECT AT ITS HQ It’s the most ever reported ...

London, Oct. 5, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Somali refugee Ramlo Ali Noor will never be reunited with her 16-year-old son in her new home in Columbus, Ohio. They had been waiting since applying to the US government in 2015 to bring over her three boys from Uganda, but their cases faced hold-ups in refugee processing under the Trump ...

London, August 29, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The Nigerian government has backed down, forced to slash its visa fees for Americans travelling to Nigeria. The Wednesday afternoon announcement comes less than 24 hours after the United States announced increases in its visa fees for Nigerians as a way of retaliating Nigeria’s high fees. However, it is not immediately ...

London, August 29, 2019 (AltAfrica)–Joe Biden has described racism in the US as an institutional “white man’s problem visited on people of colour”. Former Vice President, Biden is leading his Democratic challengers for the presidential nomination in almost all polls “White folks are the reason we have institutional racism,” Mr Biden said. “There has always been ...

London, July 17, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The US Treasury on Tuesday imposed sanctions on an Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group in Mali that carried out deadly attacks on the west African country’s armed forces. The measures target Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) — designated a terrorist organization by Washington last September — and its commander Bah Ag Moussa, an ...

London, November 9, 2018 (AltAfrica)-Sudan on Thursday welcomed a US announcement that Washington was willing to remove Khartoum from its blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism and said it was ready to cooperate. The US State Department Wednesday said Washington was prepared to “initiate the process of rescinding Sudan’s designation as a state sponsor of ...

London, October 27, 2018 (AltAfrica)-The United States Consulate General Lagos, in collaboration with RoboRAVE International, a U.S.-based robotics education academy, trained 187 Nigerian students on robotics. Robotics deals with the design, construction, operation and use of robots, as well as computer systems for their control, sensory feedback and information processing. These technologies are used to ...

London, October 22, 2018 (AltAfrica)-American Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs, Tibor Nagy, is expected to visit Nigeria and five other countries on promoting stronger trade and commercial ties between the United States and Africa. According to a statement released on the U.S. state department website on Monday, Mr Nagy would visit the ...