Walter Dowdle, a renowned microbiologist, virologist, and public health leader who worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and WHO, and made significant contributions to ...

Press Release - A new Central Data Repository (CDR) launched by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) aims to strengthen how public health data is integrated, analysed and ...

Diphtheria, once a deadly disease, is making a comeback in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Health officials warn that ...

Climate change could lead to half a million more deaths from malaria in Africa over the next 25 years, according to new research.

Over half of women diagnosed with cervical cancer in Kenya die in a year, while Botswana has a much lower disease burden; and why the cost of weddings is high in Nigeria.

Benin’s smallholder dairy farmers need development finance to plant shady trees on the land where their cattle graze, to improve cattle health.

From a 5,500-year-old human shin bone, scientists have discovered a close cousin of the pathogen that causes syphilis, ...

Sakeliga has slated Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen’s press statement about the foot-and-mouth disease issue, saying it ...

Donkeys are an unassuming yet ubiquitous presence in northern Namibia. They traverse sandy village roads, pull carts stacked with firewood, and graze freely along the northern edge of Etosha National ...