A Sample From a Remote Tanzanian Region Tests Positive for Marburg Disease, Confirming WHO Fears ARUSHA ... alongside World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Arusha, Tanzania — Tanzania’s president said Monday that one sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania tested positive for Marburg disease, a highly infectious virus which can be fatal in up to 88% of cases without treatment.

ARUSHA, Tanzania — Tanzania’s president ... President Samia Suluhu Hassan spoke in Dodoma, the capital, alongside World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

As part of a rash of executive orders completed on his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump began the nation’s exit from the World Health Organization. Here, we explain how the withdrawal would work and what it would mean,

A Ugandan health official says a nurse in the capital, Kampala, has died of Ebola, in the first recorded fatality since the country's last outbreak ended in 2023.

Uganda announced Thursday that a nurse, 32, had died of Ebola in the capital, Kampala, amid a new outbreak of the deadly virus there — the first in two years. The country has activated emergency response procedures,

MUHIMBILI National Hospital (MNH) is set to come up with a modern device that diagnoses diabetes through saliva. Prof. Mohamed Janabi, MNH Executive Director, unveiled this in Dar es Salaam at the weekend shortly after the hospital received various medical equipment worth 125m/-,

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara Desert in the north and the Savannah in the south. It is characterised by challenging environmental crises and conflicts.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 800 million people globally have diabetes as of November 2024. Many remain undiagnosed, including a significant portion of the population in Tanzania, where diabetes has become a growing health crisis.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr heads to the Senate Health committee after being grilled by Democrats on a different committee over his past comments on vaccines and shifting stance on abortion rights.

Under a 1948 Joint Resolution of Congress, a US withdrawal from the WHO requires a one-year notice period. A spokesperson for the United Nations confirmed to Reuters on Thursday that it received a notice from the US of its intent to withdraw dated January 22, making the formal withdrawal date January 22, 2026.

A recent flurry of executive orders and surprise actions by the Trump administration have roiled WHO, the CDC and the international public health community.