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Source: Reuters.

Infectious Diseases

Congo’s Ebola outbreak spirals faster than global response

Jennifer Rigby, Aaron Ross, Olivia Le Poidevin, Clement Bonnerot and Silvia Aloisi 3 days

Global health progress at risk without stronger systems, warns WHO

Healthcare

Global health progress at risk without stronger systems, warns WHO

Issued by COHSASA 14 May 2026

Passengers from the cruise ship MV Hondius, which was affected by a hantavirus outbreak, arrive to take a plane to the Netherlands, at Tenerife Sur airport, Canary Islands, Spain. Image credit: Reuters/Pedro Nunes

Infectious Diseases

Western Cape woman tests negative for hantavirus as WHO cases rise

Charlotte Van Campenhout and Victoria Waldersee 13 May 2026

Microsoft’s Kerissa Varma | Cyber threats pose new challenges for African healthcare systems

Ethics & Medicolegal

Microsoft’s Kerissa Varma | Cyber threats pose new challenges for African healthcare systems

Kerissa Varma 13 Mar 2026

Image credit: , , via Wikimedia Commons

Pharmaceuticals

WHO releases global GLP-1 guidelines for treating obesity

5 Dec 2025

Source: UN Photo/Elma Okic. WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Healthcare

WHO chief's close call in Yemen air strike

Katja Hamilton 27 Dec 2024

A health employee gives a malaria injection to a child during the official ceremony for the launch of the malaria vaccination campaign for children aged between zero and eleven months in Abobo a district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 15 July 2024. Reuters/Luc Gnago/File Photo

Malaria

Malaria cases up again in 2023, African children worst hit, WHO reports

Jennifer Rigby 17 Dec 2024

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

WHO clears Bavarian Nordic's vaccine for mpox, sets up access scheme

Manas Mishra and Mrinmay Dey 16 Sep 2024

Healthcare

WHO declares mpox outbreaks in Africa a global health emergency

15 Aug 2024

Public Health

Can the UN impose sanctions on SA? You bet it can… and One Health may be the tipping point

Katja Hamilton 15 Mar 2024

Source: Nobel Prize/Youtube

Covid-19

Nobel Prize for mRNA pioneers amid jab controversy

Katja Hamilton 6 Oct 2023

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

WHO recommends malaria vaccine that will be rolled out next year

4 Oct 2023

Charlize Theron, Chris Rock, and Nomzamo Mbatha to take the Global Citizen Festival stage on 23 September

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Charlize Theron, Chris Rock, and Nomzamo Mbatha to take the Global Citizen Festival stage on 23 September

Issued by OnPoint PR 19 Sep 2023

Source: @WHOSouthSudan

Banking

Banks and WHO launch investment platform to strengthen primary healthcare services

26 Jun 2023

More talent joins Global Citizen's 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris'

Events

More talent joins Global Citizen's 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris'

Issued by OnPoint PR 8 Jun 2023

Global Citizen announces 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris'

Events

Global Citizen announces 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris'

Issued by OnPoint PR 24 May 2023

Covid-19

Covid-19 global health emergency over, but pandemic not over - Health Dept

8 May 2023

Public Health

Consortium sparks debate over intellectual property of mRNA vaccines manufactured in SA

Katja Hamilton 21 Apr 2023

Public Health

African leaders pledge to drive routine immunisation and polio eradication

20 Mar 2023

Covid-19

Africa's reliance on imported Covid-19 test kits threatens right to health

1 Feb 2023

Source: Reuters. Uganda health minister Jane Ruth Aceng addresses the media after receiving a shipment of 1,200 doses for Ebola vaccine candidates set to be used in a clinical trial at the National Medical Stores in Entebbe, Uganda, 8 December, 2022.

Public Health

Uganda declares itself Ebola-free after swiftly turning tide on outbreak

11 Jan 2023

Public Health

World Health Organization to phase out use of the term "monkeypox"

29 Nov 2022

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Serum Institute to produce Ebola vaccine for use in Uganda outbreak

Aaron Ross 17 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Vaccine trials on Sudan Ebola strain to start in weeks - WHO chief

Elias Biryabarema 14 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters.

Covid-19

Africa CDC head: Covid still a threat given low vaccination rates

Alexander Winning 15 Sep 2022

Global stars join thousands of youth voices at Kigali Summit to demand urgent action to end malaria

Advertising

Global stars join thousands of youth voices at Kigali Summit to demand urgent action to end malaria

Issued by Dentsu 28 Jun 2022

Healthcare

WHO Pandemic Treaty: The makings of a New World Order?

Katja Hamilton 8 Mar 2022

Covid-19

Facing backlash, EU says import of J&J vaccines from South Africa is temporary

20 Aug 2021

Global Citizen Live line-ups revealed for Lagos, Paris and NYC events

Events

Global Citizen Live line-ups revealed for Lagos, Paris and NYC events

Issued by OnPoint PR 11 Aug 2021

Source: ©luiscarceller

Pharmaceuticals

Vaccine inequality makes a case for African pharma opportunities

Julie Oppenheim, Daniel Mwathe & Micael Sehul 28 Jul 2021

Africa needs fairness, vaccines to revive its tourism sector - Kenya tourism minister

Tourism

Africa needs fairness, vaccines to revive its tourism sector - Kenya tourism minister

Duncan Miriri 19 Jul 2021

Source: ©Sebastien decoret

Ethics & Medicolegal

Equity and access need to be at the forefront of innovation in human genome editing

Jantina de Vries & Françoise Baylis 14 Jul 2021

World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks as he attends the World Health Assembly (WHA) amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Geneva, Switzerland, 24 May 2021. Christopher Black/World Health Organisation/Handout via Reuters

Pharmaceuticals

WHO setting up hub to make Covid-19 vaccines in South Africa - Tedros

22 Jun 2021

Call for more midwives as millions die in childbirth

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Call for more midwives as millions die in childbirth

Sonia Elks 6 May 2021

Professor Abdool Karim appointed to WHO Science Council

Medical Research

Professor Abdool Karim appointed to WHO Science Council

30 Apr 2021

Global Citizen urges wealthy nations to pledge 'dollars for doses' to vaccinate 6.5m African health workers

Health & Social Welfare

Global Citizen urges wealthy nations to pledge 'dollars for doses' to vaccinate 6.5m African health workers

Issued by OnPoint PR 14 Apr 2021

Health minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize

Public Health

Pandemic highlights health inequalities

8 Apr 2021

WHO surge team expected in SA

Covid-19

WHO surge team expected in SA

5 Aug 2020

Gravediggers are exhuming old graves in Brazil to open new spaces. Brazil is currently second in the world for cases and deaths, and many consider it the new global epicentre. Sebastiao Moreira/EPA

Covid-19

In many countries the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, not slowing

Adam Kamradt-Scott 1 Jul 2020

Steroid shows promise in treating serious Covid-19 cases

Covid-19

Steroid shows promise in treating serious Covid-19 cases

17 Jun 2020

We are because of others

Health & Social Welfare

We are because of others

Amy Pieterse, Issued by Ginkgo Agency 15 May 2020

#Covid19: Mitigating the impact on global food trade

Food Security

#Covid19: Mitigating the impact on global food trade

1 Apr 2020

An aerial view of a new isolation and treatment centre established by the Lagos State government at the main bowl of the state-owned Stadium.
Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

Covid-19: To test or not to test

31 Mar 2020

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom at an Ebola treatment centre in Itipo. Getty images/ Junior D. Kannah

Infectious Diseases

The DRC is on the road to being Ebola free: how it got here

5 Mar 2020

New report presses for radical rethink on child health

Health & Social Welfare

New report presses for radical rethink on child health

20 Feb 2020

Tedros Ghebreyesus, embarrassed to only talk about Ebola. Salvatore Di Nolfi/EPA

Infectious Diseases

Over 3,000 killed by deadly virus in Democratic Republic of the Congo this year - and it's not Ebola

Jeremy Rossman & Matthew Badham 19 Sep 2019

Photo: World Economic Forum

Infectious Diseases

20-million children miss out on lifesaving measles, diphtheria and tetanus vaccines in 2018

16 Jul 2019