A major typhoid vaccination campaign begins today in Harare to tackle a drug-resistant outbreak of the disease. The campaign aims to vaccinate 325,000...

Cheikh Oumar Seydi is the new Africa Director for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Senegalese national is joining the Gates Foundation from the...

Peter Macharia, Kenya Medical Research Institute and Emelda Okiro, Kenya Medical Research Institute The number of children who die before reaching their fifth...

A new research concluded that treatment of HIV-positive children with efavirenz, a popular HIV drug, is associated with a mild increase in neuropsychiatric...

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns of increasing attacks on health facilities and workers in both frequency and scale. In a statement, the...

In his second State of the Union address, US president Donald Trump announced plans to stop the transmission of HIV in the country...

Late January 2019, Morocco's health ministry launched a national mobile phone survey to assess the risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).  According to...

On Monday January 28, the vaccination of health workers and other front-line responders against Ebola officially began in South Sudan as part of...

A Nigerian professor of virologist believes the current Ebola in DR Congo will not end anytime soon. In an exclusive interview with healthnews.africa...

No end in sight yet for DR Congo's worsening Ebola virus disease outbreak Latest report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed the Ebola virus disease outbreak in DR Congo is...