Africa

Winnie Byanyima brings eclectic background to big challenge

Team hopes to test fortifying salt to tackle birth malformations; government wants evidence of efficacy

Sanger Institute’s aborted effort to develop gene chip could set back research in Africa

Our species likely arose in many places around Africa, not just around the Kalahari Desert, critics say

As outbreak continues, high-level U.S. delegation visits amid funding worries

Two upcoming reports disagree on the wisdom of setting 2050 goal for ending the disease

The therapies, both monoclonal antibody preparations, will now be used to treat all patients

Dolutegravir-tenofovir alafenamide combo seems to trigger massive gain in South African women, but not men

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, who helped discover the virus in 1976, takes command of the year-old battle

One week after international public health emergency declared, financial institution quadruples its funding

Protesting the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s revamp of outbreak leadership, official also charges misbehavior

Concern about spread in and from the Democratic Republic of the Congo propelled response

Democratic Republic of the Congo rejects deployment of a second, experimental vaccine

Virus refuses to budge in Afganistan and Pakistan, while vaccine-derived strains trigger fresh outbreaks in Africa

New shots could protect more people, but also create confusion and stretch resources

Despite disease’s spread to Uganda, a World Health Organization panel says declaration would hurt more than help