A comprehensive strategy that combines pharmacological advances, vector control, public outreach to raise awareness and ...

Our study thus confirmed what was found in people of African descent in the US: the genetic origin underpinning the excess ...

Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, and the fifth worldwide, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).

In a landmark partnership to bolster Africa’s fight against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), the African Union (AU) Commission’s Department of Health, Humanitarian Affairs, and Social Development ...

The human African trypanosomiasis, better known as sleeping sickness, is among the most dangerous illnesses in Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO) in 2021 set the ambitious goal of eradicating ...

Kidney disease, leading to kidney failure, afflicts disproportionately more black people than white people. Thus, there is a huge burden of kidney healthcare costs among black people all over the ...

to address the critic Emergent shortages of the drug used to treat the most severe form of African sleeping sickness creates immediate need for direct access to the global drug market for affected ...

Rhodesiense human African trypanosomiasis, caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, is endemic in 13 countries across eastern and southern Africa. This acute form of sleeping sickness progresses ...

The country’s elimination of human African trypanosomiasis brings the total to 55 countries that have eliminated at least one ...

Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented joint summit on Saturday to find a solution to a conflict in eastern Congo, where Rwandan-backed rebels’ rapid ...