Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variants. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type. Now, trials for another strain are ...

The army and the paramilitary forces are locked in a new and ruinous battle for territory across the northeast African nation ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert about an outbreak in Uganda of deadly Sudan virus ...

Female genital mutilation is excruciatingly painful and medically unnecessary. UNICEF is working to end this cruel practice.

Sudan, which included South Sudan up to 2011, has never known peace and stability since independence in 1956. The country’s ...

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 ...

The minister for health, Ruth Aceng, has reassured the public that the country is under the attack of an Ebola outbreak from southern Sudan, adding that the government through the support of ...

UNICEF is mainstreaming climate-smart programming to protect and empower young people, mitigate negative impacts and ...

Across Africa, the policies of the Trump administration are already having profound consequences for some of the world’s ...

Uganda has begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola following an outbreak that has killed one ...

Makerere University, the Uganda Virus Research Institute and the WHO got the Ebola vaccine trial ready for dosing in just four days.

Uganda has begun a trial vaccination programme for the strain of Ebola viral infection that is behind the country's latest ...