West African nations are struggling to track and treat infections, and experts warn the outbreak is rapidly spreading, while ...

Despite being declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern 10 months ago, the mpox outbreak is not over. And in places like Sierra Leone, it is spiralling. Paul Adepoju reports.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has announced that the mpox upsurge ...

A dangerous mpox outbreak is unfolding in Sierra Leone. In just the first week of May, cases rose by 61%, and suspected cases surged by 71%. Roughly half of all confirmed mpox cases in Africa now come ...

Mpox outbreaks in Africa reflect a mixed picture, with cases on a downward trend in some countries that have been major hot ...

The Head of the Incident Management Support Team at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Dr. Ngashi Ngongo, has disclosed that Africa has recorded 141,000 suspected ...

The Trump administration has ended a program seeking a vaccine for HIV, the first in a series of decisions that is leaving ...

Monrovia, Liberia June 8, 2025 - The Inspector General of the Liberia National Police (LNP), Gregory O. W. Coleman, has issued a stern warning to individuals circulating messages of unrest or inciting ...

- Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a news conference on the Autism report by the CDC ...

Twenty African countries, including Portuguese-speaking Angola and Mozambique, have committed to eliminating cholera by 2030, following an online meeting organised by the African Union, the ...

An analysis of a 1.5 million-year-old vertebra from a human relative living in what is now Israel suggests that ancient humans dispersed out of Africa in multiple waves.