Unlike the millions of dollars that poured into Congo for Ebola and COVID aid, the response to mpox has been sluggish, many ...

Health officials have zeroed in on Kamituga, a remote yet bustling gold mining town of some 300,000 people that attracts ...

Health authorities have struggled to contain outbreaks of mpox in Congo, a huge central African country where a myriad of existing probl ...

Download logo In its largest air cargo shipment to the African region this year, World Health Organization (WHO) today delivered 33.5 metric tonnes of emergency medical supplies and equipment to the ...

They study the planet’s deadliest diseases in remote, conflict-prone areas in countries with the lowest health spending and ...

The resurgence of mpox during 2024 has been declared a continental emergency by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and a Public Health Emergency of International ...

GENEVA - The United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF, warned Friday that children in Burundi are bearing the brunt of the ...

The bilharzia outbreak has significantly impacted the communities of Nkowankowa, Khujwana, and Dan villages, prompting swift ...

Mpox, a disease caused by the monkeypox virus, saw a significant increase in cases from mid-2022. The variant in the 2022 ...

Rwanda’s taking the bull by the horns in the fight against mpox, kicking off a vaccination campaign that has got everyone ...

UNICEF and partners are scaling up the emergency response in the DRC, Burundi and other countries in Africa, but more donor ...

It is possible to end the mpox outbreak in Burundi within weeks, a U.N. health official said on Friday, but progress in ...