The epidemic has been linked to Clade 1b mpox, a strain that emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Review of the continent’s health security finds that investments since Covid-19 have ‘paid off’

Dozens of fatalities are being recorded each day in what could become the worst ever outbreak of the haemorrhagic fever

The facility, which triggered widespread public opposition, has been opened despite court intervention

Debt crises are unlikely to disappear, but they need not become prolonged crises of development

Surgeons from Manchester due to travel to Uganda may be forced to cancel if the outbreak is still active

An estimated 63,000 pregnant women are due to give birth in a country that already has one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates