Sierra Leone called Sunday for increased vigilance to prevent a resurgence of the Ebola virus after new cases in neighbouring Liberia and Guinea, but cautioned against shutting off borders between

Health officials in Liberia said a five-year-old boy has tested positive for Ebola just days after his mother died of the virus.

Survivors of Ebola are holding protests across Sierra Leone over what they believe is a lack of government care.

Liberian authorities and their partners, including the World Health Organisation, "are on top of this. We know what to do now, we can contain it, we can control it.

CONAKRY – A resurgence of Ebola in a rural Guinean community has killed seven people, health officials said Wednesday, even as the World Health Organization voiced confidence that remaining isolate

West Africa's Ebola outbreak no longer constitutes a threat to international public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, declaring an end to a nearly 20-month emergency that

On the occasion of International Women's Day, March 8, 2016, the Office of the African Development Bank's Special Envoy on Gender, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, has launched a report on "Women's Resil

Bats' immunity helps them combat lethal diseases.Flickr Creative Commons/Michael Pennay

A second death due to Ebola has been confirmed in Sierra Leone just a week after the WHO declared that the outbreak of the deadly disease across West Africa was over.

The Vaccine Alliance, Gavi, has signed a $5m (£3.5m) deal for an Ebola vaccine, to protect against future outbreaks of the deadly disease.