Over 100 school teachers have been sensitized on the Mpox virus through the 'Safe circles' campaign by Ministry of Health (MOH), Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) and UNICEF Uganda ahead of the ...

The African Union's (AU) public health agency released an advisory Thursday noting that 5,842 cases of mpox (formerly known ...

Formerly known as monkeypox, mpox is a viral disease similar to smallpox that can cause flu-like symptoms and a painful rash. It is most commonly found in central and east Africa, with the chances of ...

In the region's other developments, Sierra Leone reported more cases, with the first two linked to the clade 2 global strain.

Using current estimates of US long-COVID burden (assuming the probability of long COVID is 6% and symptoms last 1 year), cases cost an average of $2.01 billion annually. The economic burden of long ...

What he didn’t know then was that the man, who ran a bar-come-brothel, was ‘patient zero’ in an outbreak of a new, more dangerous strain of mpox called clade 1b, which would trigger a global health ...

WHO funds are spent on a range of global health projects—programs to eradicate polio, rapidly respond to health emergencies, improve access to vaccines and medicines, develop pandemic prevention ...

KAMPALA: Uganda's Ministry of Health said that five children have died of measles in the semi-arid northeastern districts of ...