The decision follows a coordinated continental response that mobilized over $1 billion, expanded lab capacity tenfold, and saw cases and deaths plummet ...

Dar es Salaam. Tanzania has expanded domestic financing and district-led delivery for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major unrecognized cause of deadly sepsis among people with HIV in Africa, a sweeping new study reveals. Beginning treatment for TB immediately – even before sepsis patients are ...

New vaccines are helping Ghana approach a long-sought goal of ending child deaths from malaria, demonstrating the potential of the shots to drive back a disease that kills nearly half a million young ...

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 ...

The Nairobi County government has signed an agreement with the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) aimed at transforming ...

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

Within hours of beginning his second term on 20 January 2024, President Donald Trump signed an executive order setting the United States on a path to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

Africa CDC is operationalising a $482.5 million, five-year climate-health framework (2025–2029) to shift Africa from emergency response to climate-resilient health planning. The strategy comes as ...

More than a billion cases of foodborne diseases, such as norovirus infections and salmonellosis, are recorded in Africa each ...

Senegal’s first aquagym program has drawn praise from health professionals for helping people with reduced mobility caused by ...