Long known as a virus confined to rural areas, mpox has reached Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

He could turn his rash action into a negotiation that might strengthen global health.

Humanitarian disasters are breeding both short-term and long-term health problems around the world, global health officials ...

A bout 120,000 children have been forced from their homes in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since the start ...

A reporter made a long journey, much of it spent fighting through mud on a motorbike, to reach the epicenter of a viral outbreak in Africa.

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

When Donald Trump returns to the White House, he's expected to issue a series of orders with far-reaching impact on global ...

Richard Conniff is the author of “Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape From Contagion.” Lawrence O. Gostin is a law professor at Georgetown University and director of the WHO Collaborating Center for ...

The Kinshasa-based National Centre for Epidemiological Intelligence seems a world away from the mega city's notoriously chaotic streets.Although unassuming from the outside, this building is the ...

By exiting the WHO and pulling funding, the U.S. would lose any leverage to enact those reforms,” writes Ashish K. Jha.

Ugandan officials said the country was on high alert to prevent the spread of Marburg virus disease (MVD) following an ...

Bryony Cottam meets a doctor dedicated to combating malaria and other deadly diseases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...