There are no approved vaccines or treatments for Sudan virus disease, which has a 40–70% fatality rate. To curb the ongoing outbreak, Uganda has deployed—under a clinical trial setting—a vaccine ...

J ames Akot has three goats. He shares them with his wife, his mother, three younger siblings, and two of his cousin's ...

The agency said although no cases have been reported in the U.S., it was issuing an advisory through its health alert network ...

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

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

Pure water is flowing for the first time in the remote village of Katchuat, South Sudan, after young people in eastern Idaho teamed up to help transform lives in one of the poorest nations on Earth.

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 ...

Since the inauguration, the incoming Administration has imposed spending freezes and stop-work orders on a wide swath of ...

Democratic lawmakers have started pushing back on the demolition of USAID. Yesterday, Brian Schatz, a Democratic senator from ...

The official responsible for playing the wrong national anthem during Kenya’s match at the FIBA Women’s AfroBasket 2025 Qualifiers has been fired.

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

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