In the African Region, in particular, data shows that in 2021, around 42% of the population was affected by oral diseases, ...

Researchers helped conduct an important new global health study that found a vaccine that protects against five strains of meningitis prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa is safe and effective for use in ...

John Green's new book highlights the history of tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease, which the Trump ...

In a unified display of solidarity, Liberia has strengthened its resolve to eradicate tuberculosis (TB) as government officials, healthcare practitioners, and civil society representatives convened to ...

Chad has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality. A group of midwives helped but now their jobs are on the line — one ...

The World Health Organization speculated that a mass poisoning ... On Thursday, Dr. Ngashi Ngongo from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said in a virtual news conference ...

The World Health Organization's head of emergencies ... Bolamba and Basankusu are about 40 miles apart. The WHO's Africa office said earlier this week that the first outbreak was among several ...

ABUJA: As the world prepares to mark World Oral Health Day on 20 March, the World Health Organization (WHO) has sounded the alarm on Africa’s worsening oral health crisis, urging immediate action to ...

UNICEF and partners took on Guinea worm, a debilitating parasitic disease. Joining them in that fight: former President Jimmy ...

That's the perspective of a World Health Organization official after the Global Measles and Rubella Laboratory Network, which ...

Guinea worm disease, caused by the parasite *Dracunculus medinensis*, is transmitted mainly through the consumption of ...

the World Health Organization said Thursday. The disease, which causes uncontrolled bleeding, vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms of hemorrhagic fever, had infected 1,096 people and killed 60 as ...