Sequencing has revealed the clade 2 virus, which is fueling Sierra Leone's surge. So far 55 contacts have been identified in ...

About 40% of the health workers who collected data in the country’s HIV hotspots either lost their jobs in February or will ...

Latest tracking data from the CDC shows, according to CBS News , the new strain - dubbed NB.1.8.1 - has been detected among ...

The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has announced the approval of the first WHO Emergency Use Listing (EUL) for a test kit for mpox.This approval represents a significant ...

Twelve African countries have joined hands to facilitate stronger cross-border collaboration to respond, prevent and control disease outbreaks. The continent has recorded over 16,398 confirmed mpox ...

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has entered into a strategic partnership with Texas Children's Global Health Network to scale up efforts in preventing and ...

On the margins of the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies ...

South Africa has approved the first mpox diagnostic test, bolstering efforts to improve testing access across the globe.

During a ceremony organized under the auspices of the African Union and the World Health Organization (WHO) and on the sidelines of the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva, representatives from six ...

In a landmark move to combat one of the world's deadliest neglected tropical diseases, six African countries Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan have signed a Memorandum of ...

It is impossible to rescue this whole operation. Nobody has that amount of money.”Wits University researchers are scrambling ...

Africa CDC and Brazil’s Fiocruz have signed a MoU establishing a new partnership to advance health innovation, manufacturing ...