The director of the Africa CDC believes the abrupt cutoff of Western aid will cause great suffering to Africans. At the same ...

The World Health Organization warned on Friday that cholera cases in Sudan are set to rise and could spread to neighbouring ...

These food rations could feed over a million people for three months, or the entire population of Gaza for a month and a half, according to a Reuters analysis.

During the 2014 West Africa outbreak—during which more than 11,000 people died—USAID oversaw training of local health-care workers, the building of Ebola treatment centers, and passenger ...

This week, the United Nations started an emergency appeal to raise $11.2 million to help Uganda contain the Ebola outbreak, as U.S. aid cuts strain the nation’s health budget.

When something is detected—like the Ebola outbreak now underway in Uganda—USAID would normally swing into action with an active response team, deploying technical experts to support the ...

USAID has played a crucial role in helping the DRC response to past outbreaks of disease, including Ebola, which has emerged repeatedly over the past decade. Photograph: SOPA Images/Getty Images ...

Uganda has had multiple Ebola outbreaks, including one in 2000 that killed hundreds. The 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 people, the disease’s largest death toll.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Jeremy Konyndyk, who oversaw USAID's response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, if cuts to the agency leave the U.S. more vulnerable to infectious disease.

It's a comment that caught the ear of Jeremy Konyndyk, who led America's response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014 as director of USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance.