"Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines" explores the underground trade in illegal medicines that kills over 100,000 people per year and supplants billions of dollars of real products.

The UK prime minister's call to cut aid over gay rights is a play to a domestic audience.

Sub-Saharan Africa will not emerge as a global economic force unless there is a complete turnaround in its economic performance, but there is reason to be cautiously optimistic about the shift to a new global development paradigm that would be far less dependent on natural resources.

A plurality of the world's multiparty elections each year are now held in sub-Saharan Africa. This is an astonishing development given that multiparty elections were extremely rare on the continent fifteen years ago. Yet African countries are beset by widespread poverty, deep ethnic divisions, and weak government institutions, all factors...

President Obama is right to send troops to advise African forces going after the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.

Malaria country governments, donors, UN agencies, and advocates should focus on policy reforms needed to achieve sustained improvement in malaria treatment outcomes in Africa.

Everybody who pays attention to these sorts of things knows Muslim societies are almost uniquely immune to the forces that have been driving down fertility rates on every continent for decades. But everybody, it seems, fell asleep before the final act.

The United Nations estimates that in the last two decades about 65 million people have contacted the HIV/AIDS disease and that about 25 million of them have already died. This relatively new but rapidly spreading disease has so far been concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa where an estimated...