Uganda is battling its eighth outbreak of Ebola - a highly infectious disease with a fatality rate of over 40%.

Analysis - Breastfeeding is so important for child health that the World Health Organization (WHO) and Unicef recommend that babies should be breastfed within an hour of birth, be exclusively ...

SEVEN people have tested positive and two have died from a highly contagious strain of Ebola in Uganda, as scientists race to ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert about an outbreak in Uganda of deadly Sudan virus ...

Sudan virus (SUDV) can infect people to cause Sudan virus disease (SVD). Right now, an outbreak of SVD has been detected in ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

The first phase of the clinical program in Uganda involves contacts of a nurse who died in the latest outbreak, according to ...

Uganda has launched a trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus, following an outbreak in the country ...

If proven effective, vaccine will further strengthen measures to protect communities from future outbreaks,’ says regional ...

Mbale City authorities have denied allegations that the body of an Ebola victim recently buried in their area, was exhumed.

Uganda with support from the World Health Organisation (WHO) has set up an 84-bed Ebola isolation and treatment facility in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, following the virus outbreak in the east ...