Category : Health

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...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged countries that have imposed travel bans or closed their borders in response to the Ebola outbreak of the need to...

The head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) has wrapped up his visits to the three West African countries battling the...

Tunisia takes a people-centred approach to universal health coverage by engaging citizen’s in the policy making process for health care. Dr Chedly Maksoudi volunteered to...

  WHO officially declares the Ebola outbreak in Senegal over and commends the country on its diligence to end the transmission of the virus. The...

Survivors of Ebola who have developed immunity to the virus are being trained to care for children in Liberia and Sierra Leone, a United Nations...

The United Nations continues to ramp-up its Ebola response, reaching more than 530,000 people with food assistance in hard-hit Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, and,...

The Ebola outbreak is “winning the race” against attempts to contain it, the head of the United Nations mission working to stop the deadly virus...

Community engagement and activism are critical in Sierra Leone’s ongoing battle against the spread of Ebola, a United Nations official declared today, adding that only...

I am persuaded as a humanist and conservationist to call on all great scientists and medical doctors in USA to come to the aid of...

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...