Upsetting students, including taking health and legal experts totally by surprise is a Pennsylvania university mandate requiring all overweight undergraduates to take a fitness course, if they wish to receive their degree.

However, officials of the historically black Lincoln University explain, saying the requirement is mainly because of the school’s concern about high rates of obesity and diabetes, especially amongst the African-American community.

AIDS researchers would like to expand their study to span the globe, including a rare group of HIV-infected people, whose immune systems prevent the virus from thriving in their bodies.

So far, studies of these 'elite controllers' aiming to find an AIDS vaccine have been confined to north America, however, scientists would now also like to rope in people from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, continuing her extensive Africa tour, on Monday met with Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos in Luanda, with the two leaders signing an agreement for increased US help in fighting AIDS.

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was due to touch down in Kenya Tuesday on the first leg of a seven-nation African tour US officials say demonstrates Africa is a foreign policy priority for the Obama administration.

Egyptian police killed an unidentified African migrant Friday as he was attempting to enter Israel illegally, a security source said.

Police ordered the man to stop, and opened fire when he failed to do so, the source added.

According to a study published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine by researchers from Harvard University and the University of Colorado, 70% of whites and 97% of blacks in the USA have insufficient blood levels of vitamin D.

A killer disease is decimating fish stocks in the Zambezi River Valley, threatening the food security and livelihood of hundreds of thousands of people in an area shared by seven southern African countries, a United Nations agency said Tuesday.

Research published in medical journal the Lancet discloses, rates of HIV infection among gays in some African countries are 10-times higher than that of the general male population, with doctors saying, the stigma, poor access to treatment or testing are to blamed.