ONCE TIME'S 'PERSON OF THE YEAR,' AN EBOLA FIGHTER DIES IN CHILDBIRTH DUE TO STIGMA OF VIRUS

More than 11,000 people died in the Ebola outbreak, although 17,000 who contracted the virus survived... READ MORE›

EBOLA OUTBREAK DECLARED IN NORTHEAST DR CONGO

In June 2016, WHO declared Liberia free of active Ebola virus transmission... READ MORE›

West Africa is facing the largest Ebola outbreak in history and more than 2,000 people have died... READ MORE›

THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH WITH EBOLA

At this point, considering the contact she had with someone with Ebola, health workers said she is most likely very sick, perhaps even dead... READ MORE›

LIBERIA IS FREE OF EBOLA, SAYS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Liberia is free of Ebola after going 42 days without any new cases, the World Health Organization WHO announced Saturday... READ MORE›

WHO CRISIS TEAM HOLDS EBOLA TALKS

Farmers in Sierra Leone who have deserted their land because of the Ebola outbreak are being encouraged to go back to work... READ MORE›

TESTS SHOW NEW EBOLA VACCINE IS 'HIGHLY EFFECTIVE'

Pharmaceutical companies only agreed to develop Ebola vaccines after the West African epidemic spiraled out of control last year, affecting thousands of people... READ MORE›

PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOLSTER LOCAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS

We need good information, Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, said at an event to announce the new partnership... READ MORE›

DRUGMAKERS TO JOIN FORCES TO MAKE MILLIONS OF EBOLA VACCINE DOSES

Europe is also expected to announce 200 million euros 250 million of funding to develop new Ebola vaccines, drugs and diagnostic tests, sources said on Wednesday... READ MORE›

VACCINE SUCCESS HOLDS HOPE FOR END TO DEADLY SCOURGE OF EBOLA

That left the study in Guinea, where Ebola is still infecting new victims, as the only real hope for demonstrating the efficacy of a vaccine... READ MORE›

IT'S GOING TO TAKE MORE THAN 200 YEARS TO CLOSE THE WORKPLACE EQUALITY GAP. HERE'S WHY IT'S GETTING WORSE.

It may take women around the world more than two centuries to achieve workplace equality, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum... READ MORE›

WHO IS NOT EQUIPPED TO HANDLE A CRISIS LIKE EBOLA REPORT SAYS

Chan has previously conceded that she waited too long to declare Ebola a public health emergency of international concern... READ MORE›

GUINEA LAST NATION WITH EBOLA MAY SOON BE DECLARED FREE OF VIRUS

A Scottish nurse became critically ill last month after having recovered from Ebola, which she contracted doing charity work in Sierra Leone nearly a year ago... READ MORE›

AID GROUPS AIM TO PUT MENTAL HEALTH ON WORLD AGENDA

Good mental health care is scarce in many parts of the United States, but it is nonexistent in most of the world... READ MORE›

EBOLA VACCINE SHOWS 100 PERCENT PROTECTION, STUDY SHOWS

She added that other Ebola vaccines were underdoing testing, and that a vaccine was also needed to protect against a second strain, Sudan... READ MORE›

FDA APPROVES ROCHE EBOLA TEST FOR EMERGENCY USE

Health regulators have approved its Ebola test for emergency use in response to the world's worst outbreak of the disease in West Africa... READ MORE›

EBOLA IS ALL BUT OVER, BUT THE POSTMORTEM IS JUST GETTING STARTED

But because of the extreme inadequacies of healthcare and surveillance systems in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, Ebola was first diagnosed only in March 2014... READ MORE›

NEW CLUES INTO EBOLA AS ILL NURSE IMPROVES

We've never quite been sure if it was related to the Ebola virus or other illnesses, said John M... READ MORE›

EBOLA CASES IN 3 FAMILY MEMBERS CONFIRMED IN LIBERIA

Declared Sierra Leone free of Ebola transmissions two weeks ago and Guinea released its last known patient from a treatment unit on Monday... READ MORE›

ZIKA VIRUS IS NO LONGER A GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY, UN HEALTH AGENCY SAYS

If anything, this has been escalated in importance by becoming activities that will be continued in the long-term in the World Health Organization, he said... READ MORE›

EBOLA IS OVER IN WEST AFRICA, SAYS WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION

The World Health Organisation has declared the end of the Ebola epidemic in west Africa, with all known chains of transmission of the virus stopped... READ MORE›

ANNE DEBORAH ATAI-OMORUTO WHO HELPED LEAD EBOLA FIGHT IN LIBERIA DIES AT 59

Dr. Atai-Omoruto had helped treat patients during cholera and earlier Ebola epidemics, including one in Kibaale, Uganda, in 2012, before she went to Liberia... READ MORE›

SUICIDE RATE IS HIGHEST IN EUROPE

Almost 800,000 deaths by suicide occurred in 2015, according to World Health Statistics, a publication from the World Health Organization WHO ... READ MORE›

EBOLA TIMELINE: HOW THE DEADLY VIRUS WORKED ITS WAY ACROSS WESTERN AFRICA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD

March 30 Liberia reports two Ebola cases suspected cases reported in Sierra Leone... READ MORE›

EBOLA OUTBREAK: GUINEA CONFIRMS TWO NEW CASES

The new cases were reported by the World Health Organization WHO hours after it declared the latest Ebola flare-up to be over in Sierra Leone... READ MORE›

PANELS ADVISE BOLSTERING WHO FOR CRISES LIKE EBOLA

Problems with outbreak preparedness reach far beyond the World Health Organization... READ MORE›

WHO ZIKA NO LONGER A WORLD HEALTH EMERGENCY

The gambusia eat the larvae of the Aedes aegypti mosquito which is the one most responsible for the spread of the Zika Virus... READ MORE›

EXPERTS CRITICISE WHO DELAY IN SOUNDING ALARM OVER EBOLA OUTBREAK

The most egregious failure was by WHO in the delay in sounding the alarm, said Prof Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute... READ MORE›

MORE AMERICANS EVACUATED AFTER EBOLA SCARE

A Partners In Health clinician working in Sierra Leone has tested positive for the Ebola virus... READ MORE›

EBOLA: INFECTED AMERICAN HEALTH WORKER ARRIVES IN U.S. FOR TREATMENT

These individuals are volunteers in the Ebola response and are currently being monitored in Sierra Leone... READ MORE›