New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

The Government of Sweden has announced funding of up to $2m (about shillings 7.3 billion) into the ;Sudan Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak response in Uganda.The contribution being channelled ...

The government of Sweden has announced new funding of $2 million (about Shs7.3 billion) for UNICEF to respond to the Sudan ...

As well as protecting the monkeys from death, the treatment also evoked an immune response. Senior author Dr Thomas Geisbert ...

Scientists have found that an oral antiviral drug successfully prevents monkeys from dying after an Ebola infection, an ...

The foreign aid program has been one of the country's best defenses against emerging infectious diseases. Without it, we are ...

On 18 February, Byegarazo and seven others walked out of treatment centers in Kampala and Mbale, a city in Eastern Uganda, ...

In her new book 'A History of the World in Six Plagues,' Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood — possibly foreshadowing what's to come.

The Trump administration has officially ended at least four of five United States-funded Ebola contracts in Uganda.

For more than a decade, I have worked as a physician and public-health expert responding to infectious diseases around the ...

Organizations funded by the United States helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are ...

Ebola in Uganda is the latest in a trend of outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers in the east African region. Tanzania ...