Tanzania has reduced maternal mortality by 80% in a seven-year period, from 556 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2016 to 104 per 100,000 in 2022. The success is attributable to increased political ...

US withdrawal from the WHO and of all foreign aid will have dire consequences for Africa. It’s time the continent took ...

Storyline: The Tanzanian government is taking decisive action to combat the resurgence of Marburg virus disease (MVD), ...

U.S. health officials advise Americans traveling to Uganda to take enhanced precautions due to an Ebola outbreak ...

The outbreak marks Uganda's eighth from an Ebola virus. The first confirmed case in the outbreak was a nurse at a hospital in the nation's capital, Kampala, who contracted Ebola on Jan. 20 or Jan. 21 ...

Abrupt changes to programmes including USAID inhibit global efforts to stop disease such as HIV, malaria and more, say ...

This appointment comes after the the unexpected death of Dr. Faustine Engelbert Ndugulile, a career politician from Tanzania, ...

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health ...

A World Health Organization spokesperson declined to ... Authorities are closely watching another outbreak of Marburg this year in Tanzania, which the WHO announced confirming last week.

In a statement, Dr. Richard Dawood, an adviser to the African Travel & Tourism Association, said, "For the vast majority of tourist activities, the risk is virtually zero." ...

[Photo/Xinhua] DAR ES SALAAM -- The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday airlifted 1.4 tonnes of medical commodities and supplies to Tanzania to fight the Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak ...

President Trump signaled his intention to withdraw from the World Health Organization on Monday, a move global health experts fear will both cripple the agency and substantially weaken ...