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Malaria, which kills one child globally every two minutes, is the top killer of children under five in the east African country.

The insecurity in this part of Congo, along with the government's inability to provide the most basic of services, have made people suspicious of efforts to ward off the virus.

In a major report on Sunday, 41 specialists said a future free of malaria - one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases - can be achieved as early as 2050.

At issue is the cost of pneumococcal vaccines that Gavi helps countries purchase through a financing mechanism.

Despite the development of an effective vaccine and treatments, health workers have struggled to stop the virus spreading in remote and conflict-hit areas of eastern Congo, where many locals are wary of the response effort.

The GAVI global vaccines alliance on Friday called on donors for $7.4 billion to help immunize 300 million children against life-threatening diseases between 2021 and 2025.

The number of regulatory breaches at drug manufacturing sites in India and China raises concerns about the fragility of the global supply chain.

Pain, like death, is a universal phenomenon.

Compared to other countries, Kenyans have to pay huge amounts of money for life-saving drugs.

Typhoid fever is far from just a fever, typhoid can tear holes in your intestines and infect many organs in your body and it’s evolving to become more and more drug resistant.

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed a new case of Ebola in the remote, militia-controlled territory of Walikale.

The FDA has approved a new drug that promises a simpler and far more effective treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis. But not everyone is celebrating.

A new study by WHO, published today in Lancet Global Health, has found that investing US$6bn per year in eliminating hepatitis in 67 low- and middle-income countries would avert 4.5 million premature deaths by 2030.

This week the WHO added 12 medicines for five cancer treatments to its list, including several that are new and highly priced.

Scientists tested a costly approach to curbing the AIDS epidemic: Test everyone in the community, and treat anyone who is infected.