Category : Health

Disease Surveillance Officer Sahr Brima Sewa visits a family in Moyinba, Sierra Leone, that has just lost a relative suspected of Ebola. UNMEER/Martine Perret Secretary-General...

Ambulance depot near an emergency response centre, in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Ambulances and drivers have to be disinfected after each trip carrying suspected Ebola cases....

The government of Sierra Leone has canceled public Christmas and New Year celebrations due to the Ebola outbreak. The government stationed soldiers on streets to...

Authorities in Sierra Leone have imposed a two-week lockdown in the eastern district of Kono after health workers uncovered a surge of Ebola infections in...

  The first of 700,000 sets of protective gear intended for healthcare workers battling on the frontlines of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa arrived...

Four hundred cooler box-equipped motorbikes for the Ebola Response were officially handed over to the UN Humanitarian Response Depot by German Ambassador to Ghana Ruediger...

The United Nations Special Envoy on Ebola, Dr. David Nabarro, today took his message directly to the people of Liberia, applauding them for the progress...

World AIDS Day 2014. Source: UNAIDS Ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 requires a comprehensive approach that includes social justice, the democratization of science, gender...

  The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today that while Ebola response targets for December 1 in West Africa may be reached in...

HIV/AIDS has evolved to become one of the greatest threats to women’s health. Every day, nearly 2,500 women are newly infected with HIV around the...

By  MOSES OKEYA & ABUBAKER KIRUNDA he Ministry of Health in partnership with Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust, has launched a five-year campaign aimed at...

Taking a fast-track approach in the battle against AIDS over the next five years will avert 21 million deaths and allow the world to end...

The world is on the “right track” to defeating Ebola as the infection rate of the deadly virus shows some signs of slowing in West...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today said the Ebola crisis response “needs to scale up, get better and perform faster,” as the UN...

The UN envoy coordinating the global response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa said in the Liberian capital today that when national governments, partners...

As the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced today that it plans to boost its staff in countries on the frontlines of the Ebola outbreak...

A doctor in Sierra Leone has died of Ebola — the fifth local doctor in the West African nation to die of the disease, authorities...

Ebola is spreading up to nine times faster in parts of Sierra Leone than two months ago, a report by the Africa Governance Initiative (AGI)...

  New Brunswick is donating medical supplies to the World Health Organization to support the ongoing Ebola fight in West Africa. The supplies being donated...

The World Health Organization confirmed Wednesday that the rate of Ebola infections appeared to be slowing in hard-hit Liberia, but warned the crisis was far...