Follow AllAfrica News: Ebola, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/all-africa-news-ebola Wed, 27 Sep 2023 03:07:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbth-Ljn8DV75O4DA87rvhPr [Nile Post] The Ebola Virus Disease has cast a grim shadow over the African continent, with East African countries frequently grappling with outbreaks.]]> Thu, 24 Aug 2023 13:05:03 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbth-Ljn8DV75O4DA87rvhPr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbu-hocR2nCHxwX50KYzL9tX [Nile Post] East African countries are coming together to chart a way forward with handling the recurrent Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreaks.]]> Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:20:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbu-hocR2nCHxwX50KYzL9tX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbupbM9N4_2CQAX50KYzL9tX [Afrobarometer] Health shock shifts attitudes in favour of taxation in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.]]> Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:01:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbupbM9N4_2CQAX50KYzL9tX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbuCcoy-wc0YW_nNuMIJyU22 [allAfrica] The 194 Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) are currently negotiating the first pandemic accord. Acknowledging that the world learned many hard lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic, governments have agreed that effective mechanisms must be put in place to prevent, prepare, and better respond to the next global health threat.]]> Mon, 17 Jul 2023 02:00:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbuCcoy-wc0YW_nNuMIJyU22 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbt8ZRHhZ1HrpEGb1Jh49AJn [Vanguard] Abuja -- Tuta Absoluta, also known as Tomato Ebola, is currently ravaging tomato farms in parts of the country, costing as much as N1.3 billion is economic dimensions, with scarcity looming.]]> Thu, 27 Apr 2023 12:01:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbt8ZRHhZ1HrpEGb1Jh49AJn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbuZl_I5sUdCskTXPGaG87AR [Africa CDC] "When communities are empowered, they do miracles! When they understand exactly what the problem is, they educate each other, carry out surveillance, and they inform the responders in real time."]]> Wed, 05 Apr 2023 08:59:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbuZl_I5sUdCskTXPGaG87AR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbvGROWKj4nYjgSngkwrdsok [The New Humanitarian] London -- 'The UN has essentially created a two-tier system for survivors of sexual abuse.']]> Thu, 30 Mar 2023 06:30:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbvGROWKj4nYjgSngkwrdsok https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbtzd5wVahL9zyuZukmJ4mr4 [VOA] Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Health officials in Tanzania are investigating an illness that killed five people in the country's northwest with Ebola-like symptoms, raising fears that it could be the deadly virus.]]> Sat, 18 Mar 2023 07:37:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbtzd5wVahL9zyuZukmJ4mr4 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbux57rSXG7AZyRFMxTa8z4W [IPS] Kampala And Mubende -- It is two months since the World Health Organization declared Uganda free of the most recent Sudan ebolavirus, which killed 55 people.]]> Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:49:50 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbux57rSXG7AZyRFMxTa8z4W https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbvkG2I34mc-tt6jHbRcHw3s [ProPublica] How We Found That Sites of Previous Ebola Outbreaks Are at Higher Risk Than Before]]> Mon, 06 Mar 2023 17:36:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbvkG2I34mc-tt6jHbRcHw3s https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbsQmTdKT9g5Uem6srrLMsqK [The New Humanitarian] London -- 'The restrictive approach favoured by WHO is an absurdity.']]> Thu, 02 Mar 2023 07:48:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbsQmTdKT9g5Uem6srrLMsqK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbuZzH6qY2EPLrDXWBZfdr71 [UN News] In Uganda, a deadly outbreak of Ebola virus has been stopped in its tracks and declared officially over, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.]]> Tue, 17 Jan 2023 07:40:34 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbuZzH6qY2EPLrDXWBZfdr71 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbvWuLvsxHdVm4IAmcWJ0TmB [Independent (Kampala)] Shortly after Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, Uganda's Minister of Health declared Uganda free from Ebola on Jan.11, her colleague, Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma; the Acting Director General of the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, teased her telling her that he felt "both happy and sorry for Uganda."]]> Sat, 14 Jan 2023 12:10:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbvWuLvsxHdVm4IAmcWJ0TmB https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbvfZwMp_EpW_p8v71dCn6bG [WHO-AFRO] Brazzaville/Kampala -- Uganda today declared the end of the Ebola disease outbreak caused by Sudan ebolavirus, less than four months after the first case was confirmed in the country's central Mubende district on 20 September 2022.]]> Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:38:21 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbvfZwMp_EpW_p8v71dCn6bG https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbtEPsbqpUquJQm0QkxGtqLL [Nile Post] Uganda is waiting to be declared Ebola free on Wednesday, January 11 after going 42 days without reporting a new case.]]> Tue, 10 Jan 2023 15:06:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbtEPsbqpUquJQm0QkxGtqLL https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbtPtDzxbg9qnQC0qH-r7xlT [New Times] Speaking to The New Times, Edson Rwagasore, the Division Manager, Public Health Surveillance and Emergency Preparedness and Response at the Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) said the country has picked a number of lessons from the previous outbreaks in the region and locally like Ebola and Covid-19 and is partly what inspired advanced preparedness.]]> Wed, 28 Dec 2022 11:50:39 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbtPtDzxbg9qnQC0qH-r7xlT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbsRU1IaDigx1gm0QkxGtqLL [Leadership] In a bid to avert an outbreak of deadly diseases in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the FCT Administration (FCTA) has heightened its disease surveillance system against key diseases like Cholera, Ebola, Monkeypox, meningitis, measles, and COVID-19.]]> Wed, 28 Dec 2022 07:15:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbsRU1IaDigx1gm0QkxGtqLL https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbvG7EJA0WDvFAm0QkxGtqLL [UN News] The UN warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is still a cause for global concern, and outbreaks of cholera, Ebola and Monkeypox (now renamed mpox) led to the mobilization of health and aid workers to contain life-threatening illnesses. The UN warned that the aim of eradicating HIV/AIDS by 2030 was under threat, but a new vaccine raised hopes that malaria can be beaten.]]> Wed, 28 Dec 2022 06:18:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbvG7EJA0WDvFAm0QkxGtqLL https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbtV9Iq1sLqYwLG7Iy_4u0x9 [VOA] Entebbe, Uganda -- Uganda on Thursday received two more potential vaccines for a trial against the Sudan strain of the deadly Ebola virus. Uganda has recorded 142 confirmed cases and 55 deaths since the September outbreak but has had no new cases since late November. While having no active cases is welcomed, it also means the trial will have to be revamped to test the vaccines' effectiveness.]]> Fri, 23 Dec 2022 07:27:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbtV9Iq1sLqYwLG7Iy_4u0x9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbsG0W0NL-ByvOm6srrLMsqK [Nile Post] President Museveni has hailed Ugandans for heeding to the advice of experts which has ensured the country defeats Ebola virus.]]> Wed, 21 Dec 2022 16:16:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbsG0W0NL-ByvOm6srrLMsqK