Health authorities in Mozambique today declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after confirming that a child in the country’s north-eastern Tete province...
Africa is experiencing its longest-running decline in COVID-19 infections since the onset of the pandemic. Recorded weekly cases have fallen for the past 16...
To prevent future outbreaks from becoming global pandemics, an independent coalition of global leaders has called for an accountable international system that enables countries...
Tanzania’s Minister of Health Ummy Mwalimu has urged the public to take precautions against yellow fever, a mosquito-borne viral disease that causes acute illness...
Kenya’s Ministry of Health has declared an outbreak of yellow fever, an acute illness caused by a virus that’s transmitted by mosquitoes.
New cases of...
‘Pervasive, misleading and aggressive’ marketing of powdered baby milk is damaging child health across middle- and lower-middle-income countries, a UN report has warned.
Ditching the use of...