Health
Central African Republic is worst country for food insecurity: WFP
About 40 percent of the population of the perennially unstable Central African Republic faces acute food insecurity, the World Food Programme.Second patient dies of Ebola in Uganda, as death toll climbs in DRC
Uganda recorded its second Ebola fatality after a family contaminated with the virus crossed from neighbouring DR Congo, prompting World Health Organization ...Uganda confirms Ebola case as virus spreads from DRCongo
A five-year-old boy is being treated for Ebola in Uganda, the first case since a deadly outbreak in neighbouring Democratic Republic of ...Over 600 people test HIV positive in Pakistan city
Pakistan said over 600 people, most of them children, had tested HIV positive in a city in the southern Sindh province.Congo Ebola cases hit record for most reported in single day
The woman spent more than a week at home sick before family members tried to take her to an Ebola treatment center ...Disease fears mount for Africa cyclone survivors
Disease is threatening to aggravate the already dire conditions facing millions of survivors following the powerful tropical cyclone which ravaged southern Africa ...Madagascar battles killer measles outbreak
Frangeline is aged two but weighs no more than a four-month-old -- the terrible result of her battle with measles, which is ...Second man seems to be free of AIDS virus after transplant
A London man appears to be free of the AIDS virus after a stem cell transplant, the second success including the "Berlin ...85,000 children may have died of hunger in Yemen
A leading international aid group said Wednesday that an estimated 85,000 Yemeni children under the age of 5 may have died of ...Ebola death toll rises to 75 in DR Congo
The death toll from an outbreak of Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 75, the health ministry said ...