Progress in beating back the AIDS epidemic risks being eroded by a funding shortfall set to grow under Donald Trump's proposed cuts to global health projects, experts and campaigners warned ahead of...
AIDS claimed a million lives in 2016, almost half the 2005 toll that marked the peak of the deadly epidemic, said a UN report Thursday proclaiming "the scales have tipped". Not only are new HIV...
Health experts and stakeholder organizations have declared a seven-point of action to be taken by government on tobacco control, the reduction of its usage and its effect on non-communicable...
At Yemen's Sabaeen Hospital, code black is an understatement: patients sleep three to a bed, on the bare floor or outside in tents as cholera brings a country torn by war to its knees. Six weeks into...
Cholera, which has hit war-ravaged Yemen with 100,000 suspected cases and 789 deaths, is a highly contagious waterborne bacterial disease which can kill in a matter of hours. Caused by poor...
Cholera has killed 315 people in Yemen in under a month, the World Health Organization has said, as another aid organisation warned Monday the outbreak could become a "full-blown epidemic". The WHO...
An unlicenced Ebola vaccine could soon be tested in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo hit by an outbreak of the virus, the World Health Organization said Thursday. There is no...
A mysterious disease has killed nine people in Liberia, leading the health authorities to issue guidelines to citizens on what to do as they investigate the illness. The BBC reports that the Chief...
Cholera and acute diarrhoea have killed more than 500 people and left tens of thousands of others sick in drought-hit parts of Somalia since January, the United Nations said Thursday. The UN's health...
Nigeria has started a mass vaccination programme in a bid to stop an outbreak of meningitis. More than 300 people have died of the disease since late last year. Medical officials are focusing efforts...
Nigeria needs as many as 800,000 doses of the type C meningitis vaccine to deal with the outbreak Nigeria does not have enough vaccine doses to deal with a deadly meningitis outbreak because they are...
Health experts fear a random outbreak of yellow fever in Brazil could affect millions if it isn't contained. The entire state of Espirito Santo is now considered at risk for transmission of the...
Pregnant women infected with the Zika virus last year were 20 times more likely to bear children with birth defects than those who gave birth prior to the epidemic, US health officials said Thursday....
Dr. Angela El-Adas, Director General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, has stated that the Commission did not have the financial capacity to conduct experiment on drugs that would permanently cure HIV...
Bill Gates says it’s time to redirect some of the money the world spends on weapons to prepare for a looming threat: terrorists with pathogens. He’s warning that the threat of bio-terrorism is...
The UNAIDS has confred the Premier HIV Ambassador for Ghana, for the Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission and dolescent girls on the First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo. As First Lady, she also...
Today is world HIV day. When this epidemic started, there were arguments about whether it originated from Africa or not. Regardless of its origins, HIV has become mainly an African disease. According...
(CNS): Success breeds complacency and complacency breeds failure. When the number of people affected by a disease decreases, there is a tendency to disregard it as a public health problem. Even as...
In Nov. 8 U. S. presidential election, Donald Trump won the presidency despite most of the analysts and opinion polls predicting his defeat to his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. U. S. pundits,...
The Ghana News Agency (GNA), on Monday, published a heart-rending story, which painted a very gloomy picture of the situation in which persons with HIV/AIDS (PLWAs) are living in the capital city of...
