Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variants. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type. Now, trials for another strain are ...

Community delivery of medication of transport services, community health workers, all of these services are currently still impacted", Christine Stegling, deputy executive director of UNAIDS, told ...

Lange's study revealed that the most common ancestor of Zaire ebolavirus was circulating in the forests of what is now the ...

The worst could be yet to come in east Congo's escalating crisis, U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday, warning that abuses including rape and sexual slavery may increase.

Analysis - In late January, a rebel group that has long caused mayhem in the sprawling African nation of Democratic Republic of Congo took control of Goma, a major city of about 2 million people on ...

Ridden Nation 1 deaths per 1,000 births. Decades of conflict have severely impacted its healthcare infrastructure, making ...

Amid a new Ebola outbreak in Kampala, Uganda, the World Health Organization has kicked off a vaccine trial. This is the first ...

A laboratory holding Ebola and other dangerous pathogens in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma—which has been seized by the ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...