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DRC’s latest Ebola epidemic, which began in August 2018, has killed 2144 people, making it the second deadliest outbreak of the virus, after the West Africa pandemic of 2014-2016. (Reuters)

Ebola outbreak spreads to new city in conflict-hit Congo

Home to nearly one million people, Bunia is the latest Congolese city to report an Ebola infection

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DRC Ebola outbreak on ‘epidemiological knife edge’ — WHO

An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has a clear "potential to expand", WHO warned on Wednesday

Midnight deadline for Gauteng school applications

A doctor reflects on his time spent fighting Ebola

Médecins Sans Frontières obstetrician and gynaecologist Benjamin Black describes his harrowing, rewarding work in the Ebola trenches in Sierra Leone.

The airstrike killed 22 people and wounded many.

Call for independent inquiry into Afghan hospital attack

The confusion around the US airstrike on a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital underlines the "crucial need for an independent investigation".

Ebola was first identified in what is now the DRC in 1976 and named after the nearby Ebola River. (File Photo)

Africa’s Ebola outbreak has not run its course – UN envoy

Africa’s Ebola epidemic has not run its course and around 30 people are still getting infected each week, says the UN special envoy for the disease.

A Liberian health worker disinfects a corpse after the man died in a classroom now used as an Ebola isolation ward in ­Monrovia

Sierra Leone to order anti-Ebola shutdown

Sierra Leone’s government says it will impose a three-day nationwide lockdown from September 19 in a bid to control the spread of Ebola.

‘Almost zero’ response to Ebola from Western leaders

Médecins Sans Frontières chief claims the response to the catastrophe is "almost zero", with nations most concerned with self-protection.

We danced that night: Funiwe with photographs of her with her late twin sister Funeka at their matric ball in 2008.

Countering TB resistance was futile – but no longer

New drugs are working on XDR-TB – but must be strictly controlled to prevent further resistance.

TB and cancer drugs in particular are much cheaper in India.

Patients before patents, demand health activists

The intellectual property policy, which will allow access to cheaper drugs, has yet to be finalised while patients are dying, say health activists.

Thousands flood makeshift camp in CAR

More than 100 000 people displaced by religious violence in Central African Republic are in urgent need of basic supplies at the Bangui airport camp.

Eastern Cape drug depot in extremis

A report released by health activists details mismanagement and shortages in Mthatha.

South Africa outperforms global markets

Belinda Anderson Investec research has shown that the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s (JSE) all share index has outperformed most major global indices when measured over two years…