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According to the experts – who receive no salary for their work from any UN entity and are not employed by any organization –...

Key pointsAmbulance attack highlights dangers facing responders Motorbike riders are key to tracking infections Surveillance and treatment capacity reinforced“Almost on a daily basis we face some...

According to local authorities, the disease has killed 2,325 people, surpassing the 2,299 deaths recorded in the DRC’s 2018-2020 outbreak, which was previously the...

Twenty-seven former rebels are being deployed as community mobilisers in the Tchomia locality of Ituri Province to promote behaviours that prevent the spread of...

“Ebola is winning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” UN humanitarian affairs chief Tom Fletcher said. “We cannot let the virus outrun our...

That information comes from the World Health Organization (WHO) which on Friday reiterated that the critical sector must not be targeted.  The UN agency maintains...

While international attention has primarily focused on the vast region’s declining opium production, advanced criminal drug trafficking networks have successfully shifted toward manufacturing and...

In its latest update, published Thursday, WHO said hidden chains of transmission are being fuelled by patients who reach advanced stages of the disease...

Key factsCholera outbreaks are active in six countries across West and Central Africa, spread along two major transmission corridors Nigeria has the region's largest outbreak:...

On Monday, United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order that calls for reducing the number of routine childhood immunizations from 18 to...