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 ...

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

Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV and 49th hereditary imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and a renowned philanthropist, has died at 88.

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

The World Health Organization chief asked global leaders to lean on Washington to reverse President Donald Trump’s decision ...

The World Health Organization said in a statement that its support to ... latest in a series of outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers in the east African region. Tanzania declared an outbreak of the ...

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." ...