More than 200 community health agents have already been trained in Burundi to help control the spread of mpox as the country continues to face an influx of refugees from the Democratic Republic of the ...

Africa accounts for only 3% of all medicine production globally, and more than 90% of drugs and 99% of vaccines consumed are imported.1 The continent has not been well positioned to address these gaps ...

Global Parkinson’s disease cases are projected to more than double to 25.2 million by 2050, driven largely by aging ...

Prostate cancer is a silent threat that hits Black men the hardest leading to higher mortality rates than in any other group.

Namibia has confirmed the first case of cholera in ten years, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on ...

Aid cuts by the United States are hurting Africa’s capacity to respond to disease outbreaks, the head of the continent's ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Malaria season begins this month in a large part of Africa. No disease is deadlier on the continent, ...

Diseases are abnormal conditions that have a specific set of signs and symptoms. Diseases can have an external cause, such as an infection, or an internal cause, such as autoimmune diseases. Long ...

They said locally trained health workers in some of the infectious disease hot zones in Africa have not been paid, and some have been dismissed entirely due to the USAID cuts. The U.S. has long ...

How many deaths have been linked to the mystery disease in Congo? At least 60 deaths have been reported, according to the latest bulletin from the WHO's Africa office. In the initial outbreak ...

The disease, which causes uncontrolled bleeding, vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms of hemorrhagic fever, had infected 1,096 people and killed 60 as of Feb. 23, the WHO said.

citing the Africa office of the World Health Organization this week. The disease outbreak occurred in two different villages in Congo. Currently, officials found no links between the cases in the ...