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5 Nov 19
The world is “walking on a tightrope” over a serious Ebola outbreak, a charity has warned, calling for a redoubling of international efforts to fight the disease.
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1 Aug 19
The international community needs to “step up” and fight the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the UK government.
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29 May 18
The UK has pledged an extra £5m to tackle the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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6 Feb 17
African nations have established a continent-wide public health organisation to help respond to emergencies such as Ebola.
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19 Jan 17
A coalition of governments, businesses and philanthropists has pledged $460m to create vaccines to halt diseases before they can spread.
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21 Dec 16
Cancer, strokes and heart and lung diseases will soon be a bigger threat to people in Africa than infectious outbreaks like Ebola or Zika, the World Health Organisation has warned.
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13 Sep 16
A report by two senior health academics has called on the World Health Organisation to embrace wide-ranging reform, including outsourcing some its functions, in response to mistakes made in its...
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17 Aug 16
One of the largest emergency vaccination campaigns ever attempted in Africa gets underway this week in a last-ditch effort to halt an outbreak of yellow fever that it’s feared could spread across the...
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11 Jul 16
The International Monetary Fund has forecast a tentative recovery for Sierra Leone this year after the twin shocks of Ebola and collapsed iron prices sent the economy reeling.
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9 Jun 16
Antoinette Sayeh, director of the International Monetary Fund’s African Department, is to retire later this year.
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24 May 16
The World Bank has launched the world’s first ever insurance and pandemic bonds to help protect against deadly infectious disease.
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18 May 16
Digital payments to emergency workers saved time and more than $10m in costs during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, a United Nations-backed initiative has found.
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6 May 16
The lingering impact of the Ebola epidemic and the commodity price slump are weighing heavily on the economies of Guinea and Liberia, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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20 Apr 16
Value for money for international aid spending is often undermined by deficiencies in the United Nations system, a review by the UK parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has found.
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13 Apr 16
Some of the world’s largest and most influential aid donors are still falling far short of transparency standards, according to the 2016 Aid Transparency Index, published today.
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12 Apr 16
Resistance to radical change within the United Nations and other large NGOs is hampering the ability of the humanitarian system to help victims of modern crises, the Overseas Development Institute...
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6 Apr 16
Health needs from humanitarian emergencies have hit an “all-time high” according to the World Health Organisation, which is appealing for $2.2bn for its work in 2016.
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30 Mar 16
The World Health Organisation has announced that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa no longer constitutes an international public health emergency.
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18 Mar 16
Two cases of Ebola have been confirmed in Guinea, but Sierra Leone has again been given the all clear after a flare up of the disease.
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9 Mar 16
Efforts to build resilience to infectious diseases like Ebola are futile unless they also address systematic gender inequality, the African Development Bank has said.
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15 Feb 16
The European Union today launched the European Medical Corps (EMC), which it hopes will enable more rapid deployment of medical and public health teams in emergencies around the world.
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1 Feb 16
The $5.8bn in funds pledged by global leaders for Ebola recovery have been slow to materialise and are almost impossible to track, Oxfam has warned.
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20 Jan 16
The UK Department for International Development’s overreliance on the international health system meant it failed to heed early warnings about the scale of the Ebola outbreak, British MPs concluded.
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15 Jan 16
A case of Ebola has been confirmed in Sierra Leone, less than a day after the three countries worst hit by the outbreak in West Africa were declared to be free of the virus simultaneously.
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14 Jan 16
All three of the west African countries hardest hit by Ebola are currently free of the virus for the first time since the start of the epidemic two years ago, after the most recent outbreak of the...
5 Nov 19The world is “walking on a tightrope” over a serious Ebola outbreak, a charity has warned, calling for a redoubling of international efforts to fight the disease.
6 Feb 17African nations have established a continent-wide public health organisation to help respond to emergencies such as Ebola.
21 Dec 16Cancer, strokes and heart and lung diseases will soon be a bigger threat to people in Africa than infectious outbreaks like Ebola or Zika, the World Health Organisation has warned.
17 Aug 16One of the largest emergency vaccination campaigns ever attempted in Africa gets underway this week in a last-ditch effort to halt an outbreak of yellow fever that it’s feared could spread across the...
9 Jun 16Antoinette Sayeh, director of the International Monetary Fund’s African Department, is to retire later this year.
20 Apr 16Value for money for international aid spending is often undermined by deficiencies in the United Nations system, a review by the UK parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has found.
13 Apr 16Some of the world’s largest and most influential aid donors are still falling far short of transparency standards, according to the 2016 Aid Transparency Index, published today.
9 Mar 16Efforts to build resilience to infectious diseases like Ebola are futile unless they also address systematic gender inequality, the African Development Bank has said.
