An 8-year-old girl who was branded a witch and tortured in Akwa Ibom, has been rescued by Danish aid worker, Anja Ringgren ...

Sleeping sickness, also known as African trypanosomiasis, is a parasitic disease that can be fatal if left untreated.It's caused by the bite of an infected tsetse fly, which is found in sub-Saharan ...

Sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which is generally fatal without treatment, has been eliminated as a public health ...

In the most remote places in the world, people are daily battling diseases that many people may never have heard of. Called neglected tropical diseases, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially ...

Uganda has reported an outbreak of Ebola following the death of a nurse from the virus in the capital Kampala.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has congratulated Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it the fifth country globally and the first country in Africa to be ...

Sleeping sickness is no longer a health threat in Guinea, which may be a tipping point in the continent’s efforts to beat the ...

Guinea, a country in West Africa has successfully eradicated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) ...

Prioritising US health, Trump has already frozen the supply of HIV and malaria medication aid to endemic countries.

Guinea has eliminated the Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness -- a neglected tropical disease, as a public health problem.Human African trypanosomiasis is a vector-borne parasitic ...