Tag: Epidemic

Progress in beating back the AIDS epidemic risks being eroded by a funding shortfall set to grow under Donald Trump's ...

AIDS claimed a million lives in 2016, almost half the 2005 toll that marked the peak of the deadly epidemic, ...

Health experts and stakeholder organizations have declared a seven-point of action to be taken by government on tobacco control, the ...

At Yemen's Sabaeen Hospital, code black is an understatement: patients sleep three to a bed, on the bare floor or ...

Cholera, which has hit war-ravaged Yemen with 100,000 suspected cases and 789 deaths, is a highly contagious waterborne bacterial disease ...

Cholera has killed 315 people in Yemen in under a month, the World Health Organization has said, as another aid ...

An unlicenced Ebola vaccine could soon be tested in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo hit by ...

A mysterious disease has killed nine people in Liberia, leading the health authorities to issue guidelines to citizens on what ...

Cholera and acute diarrhoea have killed more than 500 people and left tens of thousands of others sick in drought-hit ...

Nigeria has started a mass vaccination programme in a bid to stop an outbreak of meningitis. More than 300 people ...

Nigeria needs as many as 800,000 doses of the type C meningitis vaccine to deal with the outbreak Nigeria does ...

Health experts fear a random outbreak of yellow fever in Brazil could affect millions if it isn't contained. The entire ...

Pregnant women infected with the Zika virus last year were 20 times more likely to bear children with birth defects ...

Dr. Angela El-Adas, Director General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, has stated that the Commission did not have the financial ...

Bill Gates says it’s time to redirect some of the money the world spends on weapons to prepare for a ...

The UNAIDS has confred the Premier HIV Ambassador for Ghana, for the Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission and dolescent girls on ...

Today is world HIV day. When this epidemic started, there were arguments about whether it originated from Africa or not. ...

(CNS): Success breeds complacency and complacency breeds failure. When the number of people affected by a disease decreases, there is ...

In Nov. 8 U. S. presidential election, Donald Trump won the presidency despite most of the analysts and opinion polls ...

The Ghana News Agency (GNA), on Monday, published a heart-rending story, which painted a very gloomy picture of the situation ...