Category : Health

Special Representative Karin Landgren briefs the Security Council on the spread of Ebola in Liberia. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe Liberia is facing its greatest threat since...

Local construction workers at the Island Clinic, one of the five Ebola treatment centres with 100 beds that will be opened in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo:...

  DAKAR – The Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 1,500 people across West Africa spread to a fifth country in the region on Friday...

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday it had shut a laboratory in Sierra Leone after a health worker there was infected with Ebola,...

The United Nations today cautioned against flight restrictions into and out of Ebola-affected countries in West Africa, saying such limitations were preventing the transport of...

BARRISTA Stanley Ngubeni presides over the counter at Braamfontein’s Double Shot Coffee and Tea. “I got employed here last year in August … I had...

                    More than 3,000 cholera cases have so far been recorded in the Greater Accra region...

Ebola: WHO-convened ethics panel endorses use of experimental drugs A woman waits to enter an isolation ward to visit her husband, along with Liberian Ministry...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meets with his special guest Raquelina Langa, a young student from Mozambique. UN Photo/Mark Garten Each year 20 per cent of the...

  West Africa is confronted with a “fast-moving…unprecedented outbreak” of the deadly Ebola disease accompanied by “unprecedented challenges,” but the head of the United Nations...

In this photo taken on Sunday, July 27, 2014, medical personnel inside a clinic taking care of Ebola patients in the Kenema District on the...

  Fears that the west African Ebola outbreak could spread to other continents has grown with European and Asian countries on alert and a leading...

  Fears that the west African Ebola outbreak could spread to other continents has grown with European and Asian countries on alert and a leading...

                        Britain on Wednesday held a top-level government meeting to discuss the spread of...

                      Nigerian health authorities are in the process of tracing more than 30,000 people who...

  With 1.4 million deaths every year attributed to acute and chronic liver disease, the United Nations health agency is marking World Hepatitis Day by calling on...

The head doctor fighting the deadly tropical virus Ebola in Sierra Leone has himself caught the disease, the government said. The 39-year-old Sheik Umar Khan,...

  Delegates at a global AIDS conference vowed on Saturday to renew efforts to end the deadly disease in honour of the commitment of colleagues...

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is urging increased efforts to improve awareness among rural communities in West Africa about the risks of...