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Kampala, Uganda | URN | World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has has said travel restrictions imposed on Uganda as a result of the Ebola outbreak first announced in May are unnecessary. Speaking to journalists shortly after touring Uganda’s main isolation center in Mulago on Monday, Tedros …

  According to the World Health Organization, the African region remains home to nearly two-thirds of all people living with HIV globally   Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | As Uganda and other African countries seek to integrate HIV prevention into mainstream health systems, experts are warning that the shift …

OSLO | Xinhua | The European Union (EU) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have strengthened cooperation to support the response to ongoing Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda, the WHO Regional Office for Europe (WHO Europe) said Tuesday. The cooperation aims to help …

  As the football jamboree approaches, a rare Ebola type in Central Africa is testing global vigilance   COVER STORY | RONALD MUSOKE | On May 30, as football fans around the world counted down to the start of the FIFA World Cup in North America and airlines prepared for the annual …

Ituri, DRC | HEALTH POLICY WATCH | The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director General has called for an immediate ceasefire in the eastern DRC to enable officials to address the outbreak of a particularly deadly strain of Ebola, warning that stopping transmission “depends entirely on humanitarian access”. The DRC’s Ituri province, the heart …

Geneva | URN | While there are promising candidate vaccines that could offer protection against the circulating Ebola Bundibugyo virus strain, their effectiveness has not yet been confirmed. The strain has so far caused two confirmed cases in Uganda and 51 in neighboring DRC. Speaking at a news conference on …

GENEVA | Xinhua | The risk of the Ebola epidemic is “high at the national and regional levels, and low at the global level,” and the situation is not a “pandemic emergency,” the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. Speaking at a press conference, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus …

KINSHASA, DRC | Xinhua | The latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has spread beyond its initial epicenter in Ituri province to additional areas in eastern DRC, with confirmed imported cases reported in neighboring Uganda, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare an international …

GENEVA | Xinhua | The World Health Organisation on Sunday determined that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda constitutes a “public health emergency of international concern.” The WHO said on social media platform X that the outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo virus, does not …

  ADDIS ABABA | Xinhua |  The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday urged health authorities and the general public to remain alert and strengthen hantavirus surveillance measures despite the outbreak being categorized as low risk to public health …