The Eastern Regional Health Directorate has organized a one-day workshop in Koforidua, aimed at equipping journalists with ...

The Ebola virus disease outbreak now ravaging parts of West Africa is the largest on record. In fact, West Africa has seen more cases of the disease in 2014 than have been seen in all other ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Patrick Bahati is treated for Mpox at the Miti Murhesa hospital, ...

Unwillingness ;of African countries to share data among themselves is hindering disease outbreak response, ;New Vision Online;has learnt. ; ; The revelations came to light during a three-day ...

“I have no idea how six people are going to run four outbreak responses,” said an official who was let go. Also sent home were hundreds of thousands of community health workers in Africa who were ...

5 Historically, WHO has had a crucial role in managing outbreaks in sub-Saharan Africa. In Uganda in 2022, WHO provided essential equipment like testing kits and isolation centres for patients with ...

Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - The foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak that has impacted South Africa since 2021 continues to spread in some parts of the country despite government control ...

Uganda has had five Ebola outbreaks since 2000, the second-highest in Africa after the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The team confirmed that the patient had died of the Sudan Virus Disease ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — Aid cuts by the United States are hurting Africa’s capacity to respond to disease outbreaks, the head of the continent’s public health agency said Thursday, ahead of a ...

which is the epicenter mpox outbreaks in Africa and where aid cuts and insecurity in the country’s east have contributed to challenges in testing for the disease as well as securing enough ...