At AIDS 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, the UNAIDS Executive Director urged governments to protect decades of progress as declining international financing, unequal treatment access and rising infections in parts of the world threaten the global response. At the 26th International AIDS Conference, Winnie Byanyima delivered a message of guarded
RIO DE JANEIRO — The global fight against HIV has reached a pivotal moment. New data released by UNAIDS at the 26th International AIDS Conference warn that while the world has achieved its lowest levels of new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths in more than three decades, progress is increasingly
WHO says the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record has spread across five provinces, with conflict, displacement and the absence of approved vaccines or treatments complicating containment efforts. The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ebola outbreak continues to expand across the country’s eastern provinces, although the World Health Organization (WHO) reports
WHO validates historic public health milestone as Central America’s first trachoma-free nation El Salvador has become the first country in Central America to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced, marking a major milestone in the global effort to end the world’s leading infectious
A new U.S. approach to global health assistance is drawing scrutiny from several African governments over data access, domestic spending commitments, and links to broader strategic interests. A New Model for U.S. Health Assistance Several African governments are raising concerns over new U.S. health aid agreements advanced by the Trump
A fast-moving Ebola outbreak in Central and East Africa is no longer only a public health emergency. It is rapidly becoming a development crisis. A new assessment from the United Nations Development Programme warns that the current Ebola Virus Disease outbreak could cost African economies up to $3.6 billion, push
As cases rise in Central Africa, the world is racing to develop vaccines and treatments for a strain of Ebola that has none. A growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighboring Uganda is exposing a critical vulnerability in the world’s pandemic defense system: despite
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo — A fast-moving Ebola outbreak is spreading across eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and into neighboring countries. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has traveled to the epicenter with a stark message: the epidemic can still be stopped, but the window to
A new Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has killed at least 65 people and triggered growing concern among African and international health authorities over the risk of cross-border spread in one of the continent’s most fragile regions. The outbreak has emerged in Ituri province, near the
As the WHO coordinates a multinational response aboard a quarantined cruise ship, the United States finds itself navigating a public health emergency from outside the institution it helped build. A rare hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius has triggered a complex international public health response spanning multiple continents, exposing the
