Tanzania’s president says one sample from a remote northern part of the country has tested positive for Marburg disease.

President Samia Suluhu spoke in Dar es Salaam, the commercial capital, alongside World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. WHO was the first to report on Jan. 14 of a suspected ...

As part of a rash of executive orders completed on his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump began the nation’s exit from the World Health Organization. Here, we explain how the withdrawal would work and what it would mean,

Under a 1948 Joint Resolution of Congress, a US withdrawal from the WHO requires a one-year notice period. A spokesperson for the United Nations confirmed to Reuters on Thursday that it received a notice from the US of its intent to withdraw dated January 22, making the formal withdrawal date January 22, 2026.

A Ugandan health official says a nurse died of Ebola, in the first recorded fatality since the country's last outbreak ended in 2023.

Uganda announced Thursday that a nurse, 32, had died of Ebola in the capital, Kampala, amid a new outbreak of the deadly virus there — the first in two years. The country has activated emergency response procedures,

MUHIMBILI National Hospital (MNH) is set to come up with a modern device that diagnoses diabetes through saliva. Prof. Mohamed Janabi, MNH Executive Director, unveiled this in Dar es Salaam at the weekend shortly after the hospital received various medical equipment worth 125m/-,

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara Desert in the north and the Savannah in the south. It is characterised by challenging environmental crises and conflicts.

said in an interview yesterday that health authorities are intensifying efforts to investigate the outbreak. This follows reports from the World Health Organisation (WHO) indicating that eight people have died in a suspected outbreak of Marburg virus ...

A recent flurry of executive orders and surprise actions by the Trump administration have roiled WHO, the CDC and the international public health community.

The Association of Tanzanian Women Judges and Magistrates (TAWJA) has announced plans to establish clubs aimed at combating incidents of sexual violence against women, children, and special groups in six secondary schools in Arusha. This was revealed by ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 800 million people globally have diabetes as of November 2024. Many remain undiagnosed, including a significant portion of the population in Tanzania, where diabetes has become a growing health crisis.