The Africa CDC said the number of cases of cholera stands at three times higher than those reported in 2022. Five countries ...

Africa is facing a severe cholera crisis, with cases surging as the rainy season begins in many affected nations, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said Thursday. The ...

Ethiopia has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the south of the country, the Africa Centers for Disease ...

Those of us investing in Africa need to be engaged with its health to realise returns for ourselves and the continent. A critical factor that continues to limit Africa’s growth potential is neglected ...

Monique Wasunna is the director of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative Africa Regional Office. These diseases are transmitted in various ways. Guinea worm disease, for instance, is water-borne ...

East Africa, with an abundance of free-ranging wild animals, livestock transhumance, and interactions between animals and humans at various interfaces, combined with a tropical climate, hosts ...

Developing medicines for diseases like TB that are killing African youths and stunting Africa's economic growth should be everyone's priority in Africa and the world. [iStockphoto] I was born in ...

South Africa has used its G20 presidency to elevate biosecurity as a central pillar of the forum’s agricultural work for 2025 ...

Tens of thousands of South African miners with lung disease prepare to sue some of the country's largest gold mining companies In this photo taken Wednesday, May 18, 2016 former mine worker Petros ...

Charles Olwal, a Kenyan scientist, leads a bioinformatics workshop at the First International West Africa Symposium in Freetown, Sierra Leone, organized by UCSF’s QBI. This conference supports the new ...

New research suggests how Africa's modern-day populations evolved from 14 ancestral populations. With genetic information from more than 3,000 people across Africa, scientists are unraveling the ...