And yet against all odds, we’ve been able to administer the first doses of the polio vaccine to 559,161 children. I have been ...

The seventh pandemic of cholera—an easily preventable and treatable disease—has claimed millions of lives since 1961, driven ...

UNICEF has prevented one million doses of vaccines to the Borno State government in line with efforts to vaccinate residents ...

The floods – the most devastating in recent years with unprecedented scale and severity – have mainly affected Cameroon, Chad, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Nigeria, and displaced more than 500 000 people, ...

Cholera is a waterborne disease caused by Vibrio cholerae bacteria of the serogroups 01 and 139, usually occurring due to inadequate access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene. This ...

Secondly, there are increasing numbers of disease outbreaks – not just disease threats – including mpox, dengue fever, ...

Today's health news includes a Biden proposal for health insurers to cover OTC birth control like Plan B and condoms.

The Borno State Government has confirmed that it had taken delivery of 669,569 doses of vaccines from UNICEF and partners for the vaccination of residents against cholera in the state.

South Sudan is witnessing some of its worst flooding in decades that has caused widespread devastation in several parts of ...

Increased flooding is also likely to spread malaria and other vector-borne diseases, as well as diarrhoeal diseases like cholera – the seventh biggest ... an important step toward reducing the adverse ...