Cameroon has become the first country globally to launch a routine malaria vaccine programme.
The vaccine is expected to protect children against the mosquito-borne disease...
Over 400 people have died from the worst cholera outbreak in the Zambia since the 1970s.
More than 10,000 people have been infected with authorities...
The World Health Organization has announced that there is an anthrax outbreak in five countries in East and southern Africa.
The countries have recorded more...
Health workers are struggling to contain what they say is one of the worst outbreaks of diphtheria in West Africa.
Apart from Nigeria which reported...
The World Health Organization wants to support Africa build a stronger health system against any future pandemic.
African health experts and lawmakers have held series...
A cholera outbreak has killed over a 100 people in Zimbabwe since February this year.
The deaths have been recorded from over 5,000 infections recorded...
Authorities in Nigeria have stepped up diphtheria vaccination as the latest outbreak of the disease kills more than 600 people.
Data from hospitals show that...
