All local government units and hospitals across the Province of Cebu will now be required to establish their own Epidemiology and Surveillance Units (ESUs) following the passage of a new provincial ...

Federal grant delays, cancellations, and rescissions are curtailing HIV testing, surveillance, and community engagement, compounded by reduced CDC surveillance activity and an HIV workforce unable to ...

Introduction Climate-sensitive mortality in rapidly urbanising tropical Africa is poorly characterised, and how pandemics disrupt established seasonal patterns remains underexplored. We analysed ...

JMIR Publications has released a critical analysis in its News and Perspectives section regarding the global resurgence of ...

Delivering the keynote address, Prof. Ajay Sood, Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) to the Government of India, underscored the urgency of breaking silos across health systems.

The CDC had remarkable data on smoking rates last fall, but it no longer had smoking experts available to review it and ...

Injection drug use in the Appalachian region led to a significant syndemic of fatal overdoses and rising rates of HIV and viral hepatitis.

The Department of Disease Control and the National Science and Technology Development Agency will jointly promote R&D translation and government-wide collaboration to modernise public health ...

Morogoro. The Ministry of Health has launched a programme aimed at strengthening the national disease surveillance system by integrating the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) ...

We cannot let alarm fatigue silence the response to Kennedy’s and Trump’s destruction,” writes Robert Shpiner.

Provisions around data sharing and other conditions in new bilateral deals between the USA and several African countries have drawn criticisms. Gilbert Nakweya reports.