The World Health Organization's emergencies director on Friday praised the "fastest roll-out" of an Ebola vaccine trial amid an epidemic, as Uganda responded to its latest outbreak.

East African Community (EAC) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) heads of state and government will, on Saturday, February 8, meet over ways to possibly bring an end to the escalating ...

J ames Akot has three goats. He shares them with his wife, his mother, three younger siblings, and two of his cousin's ...

Amid a new Ebola outbreak in Kampala, Uganda, the World Health Organization has kicked off a vaccine trial. This is the first ...

The Ministry of Health in South Sudan has declared an outbreak of Mpox, with the first confirmed case reported in the capital ...

SEVEN people have tested positive and two have died from a highly contagious strain of Ebola in Uganda, as scientists race to ...

A group of regional lawyers has launched a legal and diplomatic campaign against Uganda's Chief of Defence Forces, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, accusing him of making inflammatory statements that ...

Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variants. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type. Now, trials for another strain are ...

The agency said although no cases have been reported in the U.S., it was issuing an advisory through its health alert network ...

Female genital mutilation is excruciatingly painful and medically unnecessary. UNICEF is working to end this cruel practice.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert about an outbreak in Uganda of deadly Sudan virus ...