He could turn his rash action into a negotiation that might strengthen global health.

Geneva, Switzerland - International health ... of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which had been dubbed "Disease X," is entirely due to known pathogens. The Geneva-based World Health ...

By exiting the WHO and pulling funding, the U.S. would lose any leverage to enact those reforms,” writes Ashish K. Jha.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that eastern Congo's M23 conflict risks spiralling into a ...

malaria and acute malnutrition is most likely the source of what was initially thought to be a “mystery disease” in a remote area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the World Health ...

A mysterious illness outbreak in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo has ... according to an update from the World Health Organization on Friday. Hundreds of samples have been ...

The Kinshasa-based National Centre for Epidemiological Intelligence seems a world away from the mega city's notoriously chaotic streets.Although unassuming from the outside, this building is the ...

Richard Conniff is the author of “Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape From Contagion.” Lawrence O. Gostin is a law professor at Georgetown University and director of the WHO Collaborating Center for ...

A reporter made a long journey, much of it spent fighting through mud on a motorbike, to reach the epicenter of a viral outbreak in Africa.

In early December, international alarm bells went off because of a mysterious disease circulating in a remote part of the Democratic Republic ... the World Health Organization says it now has ...