Press release

A catastrophic malnutrition crisis is unfolding in northwest Nigeria, with alarming rates of child malnutrition revealed by recent screening data....

Dr Faustine Engelbert Ndugulile has been nominated as the next Regional Director for the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region,...

Health ministers from African nations bearing the highest burden of malaria convened today in Yaoundé, Cameroon, to pledge intensified efforts...

Eight in ten people living with diabetes (80%) in Nigeria only found out they had diabetes after developing complications associated...

Summary: UNAIDS, an organization that works to end AIDS, says that even though a recent trial for an HIV vaccine...

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...

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

The health authorities in Uganda today declared an outbreak of Ebola after a case of the Sudan ebolavirus was confirmed...

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a resurgence of Ebola late last night, following confirmation of...