Category : Health

By Tesfa-Alem Tekle The UN is planning to conduct a multi-country HIV testing campaign in Africa to mark this year’s World AIDS Day in a...

Spain has placed in quarantine the husband of a Spanish nurse who has tested positive for the Ebola virus in the first known transmission outside...

With no proven drugs to treat Ebola and experimental ones in short supply, the health authorities are planning to turn instead to a treatment that...

“Our response has intensified; we have made several gains in all the thematic areas.” By Evelyn T. Kpadeh Even though new Ebola cases are being...

It is impossible to guess whether world leaders have done enough to bring the Ebola epidemic under control, given the risks that it will spread...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced he will convene a meeting of world leaders this week on a response to the Ebola outbreak as...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) suggested there should be no ban on travel or trade with countries affected by an Ebola outbreak outbreak in West...

Freetown, Sierra Leone Frustrated residents complained of food shortages in some neighborhoods of Sierra Leone’s capital on Sunday as the country reached the third and...

                      A woman suspected of being infected with Ebola is assisted by health workers to...

Passengers about to depart from Lagos airport, Nigeria, are being checked for their body temperature to make sure they don’t have fever, one symptom of...

A high-level delegation from an international social justice and health organization, Partners in Health (PIH), is in the country to hold discussions with relevant partners...

A health care worker disinfecting a taxi in Liberia at an Ebola treatment centre. Photo: WHO/R. Sørensen The United Nations Security Council will hold an...

Special Representative and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Bernardino Léon. UN Photo/Evan Schneider Three years after the fall of their former...

 Sierra Leone has lost a fourth doctor to Ebola after a failed effort to transfer her abroad for medical treatment, a government official said Sunday,...

By RICK STONE BAG OF TROUBLE: A state worker shows the African land snails she found in a yard in the Broward County town of Davie....

Study of how disease has spread in past finds 22million people may be at risk of infection In a world first, Oxford scientists have created...

‘By fighting Ebola now, we can make sure it doesn’t become an endemic in [West] Africa,’ the Microsoft co-founder tweeted on Wednesday.  The donation is...

‘By fighting Ebola now, we can make sure it doesn’t become an endemic in [West] Africa,’ the Microsoft co-founder tweeted on Wednesday.  The donation is...