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door-to-door campaign against river blindness in Yemen

Health Yemen

26. February 2026

Door-to-Door Campaign Expands Protection Against River Blindness

In Yemen, a nationwide effort is bringing treatment to remote communities for a severe form of onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, reducing suffering and advancing progress toward elimination.

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Compendium of TB best practices in the Russian Federation

Health The World

3. December 2025

Progress in Global Fight Against Tuberculosis

The world is making steady progress in defeating one of its oldest infectious diseases, as new data from the World Health Organization show tuberculosis deaths and infections continuing to decline worldwide.

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Health Burundi

7. September 2025

Another Country Celebrates the End of Trachoma

Burundi has eliminated its first neglected tropical disease, becoming the eighth African country to have achieved the feat of eradicating trachoma as a public health problem.

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Ceremonial Dancing, Along the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea

Health Papua New Guinea

10. June 2025

Another Trachoma-Free Success Story

The Pacific Island country of Papua New Guinea has officially eliminated trachoma, the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness, as a public health problem through robust disease surveillance.

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1 / 1A new class of antibiotics has been identified by McMaster University researcher

Health Canada

18. April 2025

New Molecule Fights Antibiotics Resistance

As old drugs become increasingly resistant to bacteria, a new molecule could be the answer to creating a novel class of antibiotics, thus helping to save millions of people from antibiotic-resistant infections.

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Yongoro, Freetown, Lungi - Sierra leone, Africa

Health Sierra Leone

24. January 2025

Happy and Healthy: Another Country Is Ebola-Free

The population of Sierra Leone exploded with joy when the World Health Organization declared the West African country finally Ebola-free after containing the outbreak that devasted the nation for a year and a half.

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A nurse takes blood from a patient for testing at a hospital in Monrovia, Liberia

Health Africa

19. December 2024

Celebrating the Wins Against This Bacterial Disease

With the high threat of tuberculosis (TB) around the world, the significant progress Africa has made in reducing infection rates and TB-related deaths is certainly worth celebrating.

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Anopheles maculipennis (malaria mosquito)

Health Egypt

29. October 2024

Historic End to Malaria in This Country, After 4,000 Years!

Egypt finally got rid of malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that plagued the African country for 4,000 years, fulfilling all the requirements for certification by the World Health Organization, after dedicated and concerted efforts from authorities and citizens alike.

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Health The World

7. July 2024

Lifesaving Investments Against Infectious Diseases Prove Worth Every Penny (and More!)

A recent study shows that the $100 billion invested in fighting infectious diseases in poor countries over the last 30 years generated almost $50 trillion and will have averted more than 40 million deaths by 2040.

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Health India

25. June 2024

Tuberculosis: On Track to Eliminate the Infectious Disease

Following various efforts to curb the progress of tuberculosis, India managed to reduce incidences by 16% and mortality by 18% since 2015, and intends to pursue its work to eliminate the disease by 2025.