A Ugandan doctor vaccinates the contact of a patient who tested positive during the launch of the vaccination for the Sudan ...

KAMPALA, Uganda -- A 4-year-old child became the second person to die this year of Ebola in Uganda, the World Health ...

Current health news highlights include Pope Francis returning to ventilation for respiratory issues, Sun Pharma's ...

Gutting USAID is already having a devastating impact around the world. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, teams that would ...

The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to an ...

The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP), which gets much of its funding from the United States, is closing its ...

A USAID official warned that the Trump administration's policies could lead to unnecessary deaths due to disruption in ...

The department ended nearly 10,000 foreign aid programs — including some granted exemptions just days earlier.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Jeremy Konyndyk, who oversaw USAID's response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, if cuts to the agency leave the U.S. more vulnerable to infectious disease.

Ebola in Uganda raising concerns of spreading outbreak - There are no approved vaccines for the Sudan strain of Ebola that's ...