MALARIA season has begun in a large part of Africa. No disease is deadlier on the continent, especially for children.

The Government of Uganda has received over 1,000 litres of biolarvicide from the United Republic of Tanzania to support ...

The abrupt withdrawal of US health funding under President Donald Trump’s administration is dismantling health systems across Africa, leaving millions vulnerable as diseases like malaria, cholera, and ...

Despite decades of efforts focused on mosquito eradication, drug therapies, and vaccines, malaria remains hard to beat, especially in Africa.

The sudden dismantling of USAID -- the country's main foreign development arm -- is unravelling health care systems across Africa that were built from a complicated web of national health ministries, ...

Africa bears a disproportionate infectious disease burden, with HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria posing ongoing threats ...

Final results from a landmark study looking at the use of GSK's Mosquirix malaria vaccine alongside antimalarial drugs and other measures have shown a 90%-plus reduction in cases. The study in ...

For over a century, scientists and researchers have been working tirelessly towards the development of an effective malaria vaccine. In recent years, significant progress has been made ...

Uganda has become the 19th country to introduce the malaria vaccine in what is being called the largest rollout of this shot.

As clouds gather and humidity rises across west Africa, whose annual rains bring an uptick of deadly, malaria-carrying mosquitoes, Musa Adamu Ibrahim, a nurse, is sitting at home, unemployed.

Meningococcal disease is a severe, fast-progressing infection; vaccination is key for high-risk groups, preventing life-threatening complications like sepsis, brain damage, or death. Read on to know ...