December 16th, 2020Despite the COVID-19 global mantra of ‘No one is safe until we are all safe’, the world's wealthy nations have not only hogged vaccine supplies coming on-stream...
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been declared a global emergency, with the World Health Organisation (WHO) calling for international...
July 10th, 2019The latest Ebola outbreak – which began in August 2018 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – is nothing short of a perfect storm of medical and political...
A mob killed an Ebola health worker and looted a clinic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, underscoring a breakdown in public trust that is hampering efforts to...Weekly Roundup
More than 1,000 people have now died of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), authorities said, as aid workers warned that the highly contagious virus...Weekly Roundup
Aid workers for charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are alleged to have used prostitutes and bartered medicines for sex in Kenya, Liberia and Central Africa,...
January 17th, 2018Hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are detaining hundreds of thousands of people against their will every year – many of them mothers and their new-born babies...
A United Nations panel has formulated recommendations to help improve research and development of health technologies and people’s access to vital therapies that are...
