Diseases

While more people received life-saving treatment for tuberculosis (TB) in 2018 than ever before, gaps still remain according to the...

Diabetes is a major public health issue that is approaching epidemic proportions globally. Its prevalence has been rising more rapidly and...

To improve their response to outbreak of infectious diseases, countries in West Africa are embracing technology as part of the...

The health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have announced plans to introduce a second experimental Ebola...

Kenya has officially launched the world’s first malaria vaccine today in Homa Bay County, western Kenya. The malaria vaccine pilot...

The Federal Government, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and partners, is launching a...

A new report launched by The Lancet Commission on malaria eradication concludes that malaria, one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases, can...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed four cases of yellow fever in Bauchi State. In a statement,...

The Nigerian government has announced that three states have interrupted the transmission onchocerciasis (River Blindness disease), the states are Plateau,...

The effectiveness of Ebola’s latest preferred drugs hinges on a number of factors that are beyond the control of the...