Nigeria needs to step up disease prevention and control and decentralise disease surveillance as the US pulls donor funding.

In response to new Ebola virus outbreak, the Ugandan health authorities have begun a clinical trial of administering a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Tuesday that it is pulling almost all U.S. Agency for International ...

Honourable Chair, Dr Jerome Walcott,Honourable Ministers, dear colleagues and friends,Good morning, happy New Year, and welcome once again to your WHO headquarters.As you know, for me 2024 ended with ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA | Xinhua | The ongoing Ebola vaccine trial in Uganda is an achievement in the fight against the disease, the ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA — One nurse died from the Sudan Ebola virus in Uganda on Jan. 29. Two more cases were confirmed days later — and hundreds of people were direct contacts. The virus spreads fast, and it ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday said that it has launched a first-ever vaccine trial in Uganda for Ebola from the Sudan species of the virus. In a statement, WHO’s Director-General Dr ...

We have generated circulars containing precautions to be put into practice at all schools. Let school proprietors set up hand washing facilities s at their institutions, decongest ...

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Senior Health Educator of Jinja City, Sayyid Kalume, has confirmed that 25 contacts of ...

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it infects cells. Currently, no approved treatments exist. To address this critical ...

Maharashtra reports 163 Guillain-Barré cases—outbreak concern? Uganda confirms Ebola. Stay tuned for real-time updates and ...

The World Health Organization's Executive Director of Health Emergencies, Dr Mike Ryan, has said that the United States' planned withdrawal from the WHO "will have an impact" but that he and ...