Category : Health

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...

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...

Jackson Namunya Tali at the High Court in Nairobi on Thursday. The nurse was sentenced to death after he was found guilty of killing Ms...

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...