Growth in the 15 member states that make up the Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS, is likely to inch down ...

Emergency vaccination efforts during deadly disease outbreaks have reduced death rates by nearly 60% over the past 25 years, according to a major new global study. The research, supported by the Gavi ...

The U.N.'s food agency says it will suspend various food and nutritional assistance in vulnerable countries across West and ...

The IAEA’s Rays of Hope initiative aims to widen access to life-saving cancer care where it is needed most; by helping low- and middle-income countries establish or expand medical imaging, ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services is weighing whether to fund new Marburg and Sudan Ebola virus vaccines even as Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overhauls the US immunization landscape, ...

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), through its West Africa Regional Coordinating Centre, in collaboration with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), ...

After a lull in Ebola cases in West Africa in the early summer of 2014, the virus began to spread in the Liberian capital of Monrovia in July, which meant that public health measures came to a ...

Scientists claim accident at US-funded biofacility may have caused 2014 West Africa outbreak The Ebola epidemic is believed to have come from a bat-filled tree in Guinea, but a new report says ...

The 2014–2016 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa was the worst outbreak of the disease since its discovery in the 1970s. Centered in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the epidemic claimed over ...

Guinea’s neighbors are taking measures to prevent the Ebola hemorrhagic fever from entering their countries, as cases rise in the West Africa nation.

Colonization Fueled Ebola: Dr. Paul Farmer on “Fevers, Feuds & Diamonds” & Lessons from West Africa Story January 01, 2021 Watch Full Show Volume 90% ...

The Ebola epidemic of West Africa in 2014 was unprecedented in both scale and duration. This is an oral history of the virus as told by researchers and those who worked on the ground to contain ...