Africa

The Central Public Health Laboratory (CPHL) in Lagos, Nigeria has achieved full laboratory accreditation status from the World Health Organization...

Five United Nations agencies are calling for accelerated progress on the Global Action Plan on Child Wasting, as increasing numbers...

An estimated 7 million children in Africa died before their fifth birthday, according to the latest estimates released by the...

Health authorities in Uganda have admitted that even though the country's latest Ebola outbreak is over, the source of the...

Uganda has declared the end of an Ebola outbreak caused by Sudan ebolavirus, just four months after the first case...

There has been a significant setback in global progress towards achieving and maintaining measles elimination and the decline leaves millions...

The United States Government, through the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC), launched the Accelerating Progress in...

New research from the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) reveals that only 47% of people living with diabetes in Nigeria find...

Only 46% of people living with diabetes in the African region know their status, raising the risk of severe illness...

Nigeria has an impressive emergency response for disease outbreaks but victims of road accidents and other emergencies are at the...