Global vaccine experts and officials from all 26 African “meningitis belt” countries have convened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to celebrate one of Africa’s biggest public health achievements—the introduction...

More than a hundred new cases of cholera, including two deaths, were recorded in the health area of ​​Uvira (South Kivu) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since January, according to a Radio...

A ring that continuously releases an experimental antiretroviral drug in the vagina safely provided a modest level of protection against HIV infection in women, a large clinical trial in four sub-Saharan...

The bilharzia-causing parasite, Schistosoma mansoni, first infected humans as they fished in lakes in East Africa and was spread, first to West Africa and then to the New World by slave traders in 16th-19th...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel notice recently for the southern African nation of Angola due to an ever growing yellow fever outbreak in Luanda Province. The...

We have been monitoring the yellow fever outbreak in Angola for several weeks now and today  the World Health Organization (WHO) released an update that provides some additional details about the situation. The...

Officials with the Cape Verde Ministry of Health (computer translated) are reporting 7,164 Zika virus cases since first being confirmed in the capital city of Praia last October, while at the same time...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease (NCDC) announced that 101 deaths have been reported since August out of the 175 confirmed and suspected cases. The most recent “flare-up” has been reported...

In a follow-up to a report earlier this week, the typhoid fever “non-outbreak” in South Africa has grown in Gauteng province and now cases are being reported from Western Cape. Gauteng Health...

In a follow-up to a report last week about a monkeypox outbreak in the Central African Republic (CAR), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released this update on the outbreak...