By Morkporkpor Anku Accra, Feb. 14, GNA – Research Team on the UK NIHR-funded Project on STOP-Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) ...

A virus originally found in animals, mpox -- which causes the disease of the same name -- is now circulating in humans. Since 2022, it has been the cause of major epidemics spreading outside endemic ...

HIV is spread by bodily fluids such as blood, breast milk or semen. It gradually weakens the body's immune system and makes ...

In March 2023, Tanzania experienced its first outbreak of Marburg virus disease, a rare and deadly hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola. That outbreak also occurred in the Kagera region, which borders ...

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

A new retrospective, laboratory-based observational study provides detailed insights into the causes of fevers of unknown origin in sub-Saharan Africa. Scientists examined 550 patients from Guinea who ...

A new retrospective, laboratory-based observational study provides detailed insights into the causes of fevers of unknown ...

People of African descent often have non-communicable and infectious diseases at the same time. Research needs to be done ...

Adults in Tanzania living with HIV and taking tenofovir have a higher rate of chronic kidney disease vs. those without the ...

The ban by the world's largest meat importer affects Ghana, Somalia, Qatar, Congo (DRC), Nigeria, and Tanzania, Egypt ... products from Germany following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, it said ...

coronary artery disease, and stroke, are leading causes of morbidity and mortality in South Africa. Notably, 1 in 3 South African adults (33.7%) have hypertension, a significant risk factor for ...