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BUNIA, DR Congo — A wave of unrest has erupted at the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after…
NAIROBI, Kenya — As a deadly and little-known Ebola strain with no approved vaccine spreads across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda,…
KAMPALA, Uganda — The United States has issued a travel advisory warning its citizens against visiting several countries in East and Central Africa following the…
ITURI, DR Congo — Communities living near the epicentre of a growing Ebola outbreak in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have described rising…
GENEVA, Switzerland — The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed that a hantavirus outbreak linked to a cruise ship has risen to 11 cases, including…
NAIROBI, Kenya — The Kenyan government has unveiled sweeping reforms to the Social Health Authority (SHA) benefits package, introducing free maternity services at primary healthcare…
SOUTH ATLANTIC — A suspected viral outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the South Atlantic has left three people dead and triggered an international public…
ROCHESTER, United States — A newly developed Artificial Intelligence (AI) system from the Mayo Clinic, a US-based non-profit medical institution, could significantly change how pancreatic…
KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda’s Ministry of Health is set to roll out the nationwide use of a long-acting HIV prevention injection, lenacapavir, in a major step…
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States — A newly identified COVID-19 variant, known as BA.3.2, is spreading rapidly across the United States, prompting renewed scrutiny from health…