Dennis OsadebeDr. Esperance Luvindao, who leads the country’s health and social services and is the youngest health minister in Africa, has ambitious plans.
Dennis OsadebeA Somali hospital ward packed with gasping children shows how war, climate and mistrust of vaccines is fueling the disease’s return.
Dennis OsadebeTreating baby wraps with a mosquito repellent shows promising protection against a top killer of children.
Dennis OsadebeHunger and the diseases that stalk small children have surged in Somalia after the U.S. slashed its aid to the country.
Dennis OsadebeLow- and middle-income countries will be able to purchase an effective preventative at a reduced price. The arrangements may help stem the epidemic 40 years after it began.
Dennis OsadebeHealth officials have recorded 28 suspected cases and 15 fatalities so far in the latest outbreak of the deadly virus, which has claimed thousands of lives in previous outbreaks in…
Dennis OsadebeLawmakers allocated $6 billion this fiscal year for PEPFAR, the H.I.V. prevention and treatment program, but the administration has indicated it will release less than half of that.
Dennis OsadebeUnregulated sexual stimulants are flooding West Africa, posing major health risks that officials are scrambling to address.
Dennis OsadebeZackie Achmat, once at the center of South Africa’s push for lifesaving H.I.V. treatment, has come out of retirement as U.S. funding cuts and his own government’s inertia revive old…
Dennis OsadebeIn a video address, the health secretary said the United States would no longer donate to Gavi, the vaccine agency. The organization rejected his claims.
