Diseases

Pneumonia and diarrhoea are killing 1 in 4 children under age of 5 A new report has revealed that Nigeria...

In Nigeria’s Borno State, malaria is currently claiming more lives than all other diseases combined. Children under the age of...

This is the story of the first female survivor of the deadly extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa "One morning...

WHO releases Global Tuberculosis Report 2017 Global efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB) have reportedly saved an estimated 53 million lives...

Dr Ren Minghui WHO's Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases, has disclosed that it is not possible to meet the ambitious hepatitis...

The Marburg virus disease currently ravaging East Africa has a case fatality ratio of up to 88% Marburg virus is...

There is another Ebola-like disease outbreak plaguing Africa, it is Marburg virus disease in eastern Uganda The World Health Organization...

Nigerian government has announced it is investigating a total of 94 suspected cases of Monkeypox in 11 states In a...

Most measles-related deaths are caused by complications associated with the disease Measles is a highly contagious, serious disease caused by...

For the first time, global measles deaths have fallen below 100 000 per year. In 2016, an estimated 90 000 people...