WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti travels to Kinshasa to discuss Ebola outbreak
The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti today visited Kinshasa (DR Congo) to discuss with national authorities and...
Ebola vaccines for Guinea and the world
More than 11 000 people in Guinea participated in a WHO-led trial to develop the world’s first vaccine against Ebola virus disease. The...
Final trial results confirm Ebola vaccine provides high protection against disease
An experimental Ebola vaccine was highly protective against the deadly virus in a major trial in Guinea, according to results published...
Will Ebola change the game?
Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. The report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola The...
Liberia closes border with Ebola-hit Guinea
Liberia closed its border with Guinea on Tuesday as a precaution against Ebola following at least four deaths from the virus in Guinea,...
Ebola outbreak indirectly increases deaths from malaria, HIV, TB
Recent findings published in Emerging Infectious Diseases showed that the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak indirectly increased the number of...
Liberia: Ebola - Antimalarial Drug Reduced Patient Mortality By 31 Percent
PRESS RELEASE A malaria drug may have reduced risk of dying among a group of Ebola patients in Liberia during the height of the outbreak...
Sierra Leone: Ebola 'Day-Zero' in Sierra Leone
Nationwide celebrations as country declared Ebola-free Today, Saturday 7th November, Sierra Leone is officially declared Ebola-free...
Guinea Ring Vaccination trial extended to Sierra Leone to vaccinate contacts of new Ebola case
Freetown, Sierra Leone: Detection of a new case of Ebola virus disease in Kambia, Sierra Leone after the country had marked almost three...
Ebola's lessons: How WHO mishandled the crisis
EDITOR’S NOTE: Understanding the disastrous international response to last year’s Ebola pandemic in West Africa is important to ensure...