The African Union's (AU) public health agency released an advisory Thursday noting that 5,842 cases of mpox (formerly known ...

The Kinshasa-based National Centre for Epidemiological Intelligence seems a world away from the mega city's notoriously chaotic streets.Although unassuming from the outside, this building is the ...

Formerly known as monkeypox, mpox is a viral disease similar to smallpox that can cause flu-like symptoms and a painful rash. It is most commonly found in central and east Africa, with the chances of ...

What he didn’t know then was that the man, who ran a bar-come-brothel, was ‘patient zero’ in an outbreak of a new, more dangerous strain of mpox called clade 1b, which would trigger a global health ...

WHO funds are spent on a range of global health projects—programs to eradicate polio, rapidly respond to health emergencies, improve access to vaccines and medicines, develop pandemic prevention ...

COVID-19 made its debut in December 2019 and has since caused the deaths of more than 7.1 million people, according to the World Health Organization. While pharmaceutical companies rushed to find a ...

Global health law professor Lawrence Gostin explains the risks of the US withdrawal from the World Health Organization.

In the region's other developments, Sierra Leone reported more cases, with the first two linked to the clade 2 global strain.

Africa malaria jab rollout delivers 10 million dosesNearly 10 million malaria vaccine doses were delivered to Africa during the first year of routine immunisation being rolled out across the continent ...

Using current estimates of US long-COVID burden (assuming the probability of long COVID is 6% and symptoms last 1 year), cases cost an average of $2.01 billion annually. The economic burden of long ...

The Laken Riley Act is on track to become the first bill Donald Trump signs into law as president and a sign of his intent.

A new study shows that the disparity between the life expectancies of different populations has nearly doubled since 2000.