Health Minister Jane Aceng has said the trial treatment has been cleared by the the National Council of Science and Technology and National Drugs Authority and comes shortly after ... Read more »
In a decision that baffled some critics, the World Health Organization's advisory committee, the International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee has declared that the Read more »
The ministry of health has said that health officials will remain on high alert since reports of an outbreak in neighbouring Uganda where two people died of the disease. Read more »
The World Health Organization has said the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo which has spilled into Uganda is an "extraordinary event" of deep concern but does not yet merit ... Read more »
The grandmother of a five-year-old boy who died of Ebola in Uganda has also died, a health ministry source has told local newspaper the Daily Monitor. The patients were being ... Read more »
Uganda's health ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO) have confirmed the first Ebola case in the east African nation since the current outbreak began in eastern ... Read more »
An escalating Ebola epidemic in conflict-wracked eastern DR Congo has surpassed the 2,000 cases mark, two-thirds of which have been fatal, according to government figures. Since ... Read more »
The UN and leading aid groups have taken the step of formally declaring that the Ebola outbreak needs a major scale-up from the humanitarian community. Read more »
With the Ebola epidemic now in its tenth month and the number of new cases increasing in recent weeks, the UN has announced new measures to strengthen its fight to end the ... Read more »
Given that thousands of Ebola survivors reside in West Africa, the global community has learned about the high risk of health complications for those who suffered from the virus ... Read more »
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