Tanzania has confirmed its first-ever cases of Marburg Virus Disease, after laboratory tests were carried out following reports of cases...

Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its latest progress report on the fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) entitled...

Summary: UNAIDS, an organization that works to end AIDS, says that even though a recent trial for an HIV vaccine...

According to a new status report from the World Health Organization (WHO), five billion people globally remain unprotected from harmful...

Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, together with a consortium of global partners, have announced that an independent data...

The Central Public Health Laboratory (CPHL) in Lagos, Nigeria has achieved full laboratory accreditation status from the World Health Organization...

Five United Nations agencies are calling for accelerated progress on the Global Action Plan on Child Wasting, as increasing numbers...

Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari recently signed the country mental health bill into law. Described as groundbreaking, the new law aims,...

Despite the large number of lives threatened by unsafe practices, abortion remains a highly controversial issue in Nigeria, where it...

An estimated 7 million children in Africa died before their fifth birthday, according to the latest estimates released by the...