Leprosy hasn't gone away: Uganda logged 1,935 new cases in five years
National surveillance shows no decline from 2020 to 2024, with one in five patients already disabled at diagnosis — a marker of late detection even as the global burden falls.
A daily zinc pill cut infections by nearly 40% in young children with sickle cell anemia
A 100-child randomized trial in Uganda found a cheap supplement lowered infection rates on top of standard hydroxyurea therapy — though the authors say it needs a bigger trial before it changes practice.
The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak has reached five provinces. A treatment trial just started
Two months after the emergency declaration, confirmed cases in DRC have passed 2,100 and spread to 46 health zones. There is still no approved vaccine or treatment — but patients are now being enrolled in one.
Nearly 900 confirmed Ebola cases, and the case fatality ratio keeps climbing
Five weeks into the Bundibugyo virus emergency, WHO says some new cases reflect transmission that had gone undetected for weeks — a sign the outbreak may be larger than the count shows.
A month into the Bundibugyo Ebola emergency, cases have quadrupled
WHO declared a public health emergency of international concern on 17 May. By early June, confirmed cases had climbed past 500 and Africa CDC put a price tag on the continental response: $518 million.
WHO declares a global health emergency over a rare Ebola strain with no vaccine
Eight confirmed cases, 246 suspected, and 80 suspected deaths in eastern DRC were enough for the Director-General to invoke his highest level of alarm — before convening the emergency committee that usually comes first.
Treating a cloth baby wrap with permethrin cut childhood malaria by two thirds
In a 400-pair trial in Uganda where every family already had a bed net, insecticide-treated wraps reduced clinical malaria in infants from 2.14 to 0.73 cases per 100 person-weeks.