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Student debt cancellation is a prominent issue among young voters, but it's not the sole driving issue organizers are pushing before Election Day.

The seafood industry has some well-publicized problems: from overfishing to contaminants that make their way into fish. Now, a handful of startups aim to offer a "clean" alternative grown from cells.

Climate change is heating oceans faster than the world's coral reefs can handle. So scientists are breeding corals that can withstand hotter temperatures – but only to a point.

For this health expert based in Boston, the effort to get vaccines to his native South Africa was intensely personal.

A variant now named omicron, first detected in South Africa, prompted new overseas travel restrictions in Europe and a special World Health Organization meeting on Friday.

The money was part of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. It went to sex ed classes and public health messages in Africa. Effective or not? A new study offers a clear verdict.

The drug lenacapavir will be distributed to Eswatini and Zambia — the first step toward providing at least 2 million doses to the countries with the highest HIV burden, largely in Africa, by 2028.

France will withdraw its troops and ambassador from the West African country of Niger, meeting one of the demands of the military junta, which seized power there in July.

In Soweto, South Africa, NPR's Gregory Warner speaks with people attending Nelson Mandela's memorial service — some who are too young to remember the late leader's years as president.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Richard Knox about findings presented yesterday at the International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa. Studies from several countries have shown that it is feasible to give anti-AIDS treatment to poor populations and to people with high levels of viral infection...but the cost of these treatments still poses a problem.