Amid the violence of 1994, a network of Swiss aid workers helped rescue around 1,000 Rwandan children, moving them across the border to safety in Burundi. These children, many of whom were orphans, ...

Interviews: Africa accounted for about 95 percent of the 249 million malaria cases and 608,000 deaths worldwide in 2022, ...

The Brazilian advocates behind this effort are among many around the globe joining the World Health Organization (WHO) to mobilize efforts on a worldwide “Day of Action for Cervical Cancer Elimination ...

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) called on the US to reassess its Level 3 travel advisory ...

The first case of a more aggressive type of mpox has been reported in California, marking the first time the United States ...

Liberia is set to receive 10,000 doses of the mpox vaccine to help protect the country from the outbreak which has claimed at ...

WHO leads global efforts to eradicate cervical cancer; countries launch transformative campaigns and initiatives.

On Friday, Rwanda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Olivier Nduhungirehe, and France’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, ...

The countries with the highest incarceration rates are El Salvador, Cuba, Rwanda, Turkmenistan, and the United States.

In August 2024, the World Health Organization declared the clade I mpox outbreak in central and east Africa a public health emergency of international concern. The current outbreak is more widespread ...

The total number of adults living with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes in the world has surpassed 800 million—over four ...

The first week was the worst. “It was very, very, very deadly because the people had an advanced stage of disease, and the ...