Africa accounts for only 3% of all medicine production globally, and more than 90% of drugs and 99% of vaccines consumed are imported.1 The continent has not been well positioned to address these gaps ...

Aid cuts by the United States are hurting Africa's capacity to respond to disease outbreaks, the head of the continent's ...

The African Epidemic Fund is now operational, providing the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) with flexible funding to support countries across the continent in outbreak ...

Six weeks after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the eastern Congolese cities of Goma and Bukavu, the region is facing a setback ...

Slashing tuberculosis aid could endanger millions of lives abroad, health authorities say, with potential consequences for ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Malaria season begins this month in a large part of Africa. No disease is deadlier on the continent, ...

Fonio – a gluten-free grain with many nutritional benefits – has been cultivated as a subsistence crop in West Africa for thousands of years.

Most were unvaccinated people or children younger than five. Cases were most common in parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia where incomes are low and health services insufficient. In places where ...

A strain of mpox with the possibility of a higher transmission rate has been detected in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bloomberg’s Janice ...

the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has established Regional Capability and Capacity Networks (RCCNs) to drive skills development, workforce training and R&D.

Meanwhile, Dr. Craig Spencer, an emergency medicine physician with decades of experience in global public health who has worked as an epidemiologist in Africa and survived Ebola himself ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported a notable increase in measles ... and vaccine hesitancy. Countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe have also seen significant measles ...