The biggest emergency yellow fever vaccination campaign ever held in Africa is underway in Democratic Republic of the Congo. With high...

A local midwife documents a mother’s health with the use of mobile technology. Mavis Tabi-Boateng, a midwife at a health centre in...

Dr Pilly Sahid and Yusuf Ahmed Mzitto, known as "Kessy", at the Mwananyamala District Hospital’s methadone clinic in Dar es Salaam In a...

Fifteen years ago, African leaders pledged to increase health spending to 15% of total government expenditure. Since then health spending...

A WHO emergency health team arrived 19 August 2016 in Maiduguri city to assess and respond to the health needs of 800 000 people in north...

Stagnating incidence and growing epidemics in key populations saw the optimism of other recent conferences give way to an embattled air...

PIC: Mosquitoes expert Willem Takken, professor at Wageningen University poses with his mosquito trap in Wageningen. The so-called "odor...

A yellow fever outbreak was detected in Luanda, Angola late in December 2015. The 1st cases were confirmed by the National Institute for...

After more than two years without wild poliovirus in Nigeria, the Government reported today that 2 children have been paralyzed by the...

Sierra Leone and Liberia risk new deadly epidemics akin to the impact of the Ebola virus due to lack of clean water and hygienic...