Myiasis, the infestation of human or animal tissue with fly larvae (maggots), is spreading fast among livestock: The government cannot control it due to lack...

In 2003 Hiba (not her real name), then aged 11, was forced to marry her cousin. The following day she was driven from Baghdad to...

Yemen's Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) have begun a national campaign to combat bilharzia, which affects over three million of the...

//CORRECTED// LifeStraw began when a young Danish graduate, whose family owned a small textile company, took a trip in the 1990s around Africa, where contaminated...

The first two years in a child’s life are crucial in determining its well-being in adulthood, according to a series of five papers launched in...

Yemeni businessmen of Saudi origin and Saudi charities are having an impact on the health and education sectors in some of the poorest parts of...

Egypt’s Ministry of Agriculture has given instructions to veterinary departments across the country to take all the necessary precautions against Rift Valley Fever (RVF), especially...