Uganda's borders have always been busy and vulnerable. Over the past decade, Ebola, COVID-19, leptospirosis, Marburg, measles ...

An anti-Ebola advocacy van drives along Kyadondo road amid the Ebola outbreak and alert in Kampala, Uganda October 27, 2022. Photo credit: File | Reuters. By Longino Muhindo.

Sligo man exits the crisis-hit World Health Organisation after decades of fighting deadly diseases in some of the most dangerous places ...

The Ebola virus disease outbreak now ravaging parts of West Africa is the largest on record. In fact, West Africa has seen more cases of the disease in 2014 than have been seen in all other ...

As he marks two decades of service, Patrick Wokorach stands as a quiet hero in the world of public health-a man whose journey from a 60-day contract to 20 years of unwavering service is nothing short ...

The World Health Organization warned on Friday that cholera cases in Sudan are set to rise and could spread to neighbouring countries, including Chad, which hosts hundreds of thousands of refugees ...

In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a ...

The current mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone is the largest ever recorded in the country and the first major epidemic caused by the clade IIb monkeypox virus in Africa. Since a public health emergency ...

A dangerous mpox outbreak is unfolding in Sierra Leone. In just the first week of May, cases rose by 61%, and suspected cases ...

For the first time in Uganda's recent history, the health sector has received a record Shs 5.87 trillion allocation in the newly announced national budget for the financial year 2025/26.