The rocks of Duiker Island are packed with Cape fur seals basking in the sun. Just out of reach of the Atlantic swell, ...

In crowded Kinshasa, two strains of mpox are sweeping through a community that relies on selling sex. Hundreds of thousands ...

Rwanda's outbreak of the Marburg virus was declared over this week by the World Health Organization ( WHO) and the Rwandan government. The announcement by WHO comes after weeks without any new ...

The HeForShe initiative, a global solidarity movement for gender equality, was introduced in Malawi in 2015. It engages men and boys as allies in dismantling patriarchal norms and promoting positive ...

A study reveals that Africa's low rates of Zika virus outbreaks may be due to a surprising factor: the genetic makeup of ...

Rwanda has declared an end to the country's Marburg virus outbreak following the recovery of the last patient 42 days ago, ...

Sierra Leone was one of three countries ravaged by the Ebola epidemic 10 years ago. A national vaccine campaign is a big step ...

After African countries struggled to get testing kits during the COVID-19 pandemic, officials vowed to make the continent ...

With a 50-50 risk of death, the ‘bleeding eye’ virus is thought to be one of the deadliest on earth and could spread to other ...

The Mpox virus severely impacts Central and East Africa, with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at the epicenter. Over ...

The Ebola virus devastated west Africa in 2014, claiming over 11,000 lives in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. It was the largest Ebola outbreak since the virus had first been discovered in the ...