A promising new and innovative diagnostic test will now enable doctors to detect more people with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), thus increasing the urgency to respond to challenges of the pricing and supply of DR-TB medicines.

In almost every country in Africa, women complain about sexual harassment in public spaces. Perhaps one of the worst spaces, and one that most women and girls can't avoid, is on public transport.

Have you ever looked at his or her face? (S)he is always dressed in some darkish clothes, with many stains, carrying the ubiquitous sack, or is it a black polythene bag? Yes, may find it difficult to remember the person's face, since you usually see only a hunched over back and hands rustling and rummaging through your trash. When you peek out your window or walk by, it's uncomfortable, isn't it?

Even as African countries join the rest of the world in Durban, South Africa to evaluate the impact of climate change on livelihoods, there are concerns about the use of solar energy, rapidly gaining popularity in African countries, which was once heralded as an environmental solution to energy needs.

Women leaders are plentiful at the ongoing Conference of Parties (COP 17) meeting in Durban, South Africa, standing at the forefront in climate change discussions. For example, UNFCCC executive secretary Christiana Figueres and South Africa's Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of COP 17, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, to name just a couple. However, there is one woman whose absence at this important meeting is glaring. It's safe to say, had she still been alive, Africa's first female Nobel Laureate for Peace, the late Professor Wangari Maathai, would have been raising her voice this week in Durban.

At a parallel event held in Nairobi on Tuesday, Kenyan women, led by the Kenyan Women Parliamentary Association (KEWOPA) and other civil society groups, commemorated Maathai's life. The women congregated at the Freedom Corner at Uhuru Park in Nairobi at an event themed, "Greening politics through Wangari's vision: It is time to unify Kenya."