There could be 2,000 new HIV infections a day across the world and a ten-fold increase in related deaths if funding frozen by the United States is not restored or replaced, the United Nations Aids age...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched new guidelines to help all countries reform and strengthen mental health policies and systems. Mental health services worldwide remain underfunded, wit...

Ethiopia has reaffirmed its commitment to global health security by submitting its annual health security assessment, known as the State Party Self-Assessment Annual Report (SPAR), to the World Health...

The health clinic where Alice Okwirry collects her HIV medication in Nairobi has been rationing supplies of antiretrovirals (ARVs) to one-month refills since the US government froze foreign aid. Meanw...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) today announced the recommendations for the viral composition of influenza vaccines for the 2025–2026 influenza season in the northern hemisphere. The announcemen...

The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has committed to establishing Regional Capability and Capacity Networks (RCCNs) to enhance skills development, workforce training, and...

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and Global Health European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership 3 (Global Health EDCTP3) have signed a Memorandum of Un...

More than one million people have been vaccinated against cholera in three of the hardest-hit provinces in Angola. The five-day campaign aimed to complement the ongoing public health measures to halt ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to gut the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has sent shockwaves globally, particularly in the Global South, where the agency funds numerou...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) expresses deep concern about the implications of the immediate funding pause for HIV programmes in low- and middle-income countries. These programmes provide access...

President Donald Trump reignited efforts to withdraw the US from the World Health Organisation (WHO) on his first day back in the White House. This decision marks the second attempt in five years to s...

A surge in cases of the flu-like human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in China has raised fears of another COVID-style pandemic. Images of hospitals overrun with masked patients have circulated widely on soci...