Addis Ababa. The African Union has set a target for 60 percent of vaccines used on the continent to be produced locally by 2040, aiming to strengthen regional health security and reduce reliance on ...

The recent global monkeypox (mpox) outbreak, with a new and aggressive variant, has underscored the dire need for safe, broadly effective, and accessible vaccines. The LC16m8 vaccine, an attenuated ...

In recent years, the world has seen a surge in new and deadly infectious diseases, posing a major threat to global health.

Even critics of the global health organization say that the United States' withdrawal won’t solve pressing problems.

America's ousted vaccine chief has told Sky News there will be more deaths from a growing measles outbreak unless the US ...

A new shipment of 200,000 mpox vaccine doses provided by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance will arrive this week in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in support of the country’s response to the ...

Uganda successfully ends its 2025 Ebola outbreak in under 4 months through strategic health interventions, community ...

The World Health Organization's regional director for Africa said the ebola outbreak challenged Uganda's health workers in ...

Uganda’s health ministry has officially declared an end to the country’s Ebola outbreak following 42 consecutive days without ...

Jonathan Rockoff is the Health Business editor at The Wall Street Journal, managing a team that reports on pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, health insurers and hospitals. During the ...

A summary of current health news, including the disbanding of a U.S. Justice Department unit focusing on food and drug safety ...

Filoviruses are among the globe's most lethal—indeed, so dangerous they can be handled only in high-security laboratories. Yet, more than five decades after the discovery of the Marburg virus and ...