In Malawi, a country once believed to be long past the danger of leprosy, new figures paint a troubling picture. This year alone, Mchinji District along the border between Malawi and Zambia has ...

LILONGWE- (MaraviPost)- The Southern Region continues to bear the highest burden of Tuberculosis (TB) in Malawi, recording 9,630 cases so far in 2025, a slight drop from 10,019 in 2023. This was ...

The Health Ministry has partnered with the Sasakawa Health Foundation to strengthen efforts to end leprosy in Indonesia by 2030 through five ...

In the dry, windswept valleys of Northern Chile, two ancient skeletons are changing how scientists understand the history of ...

Hansen's Disease, more commonly known as leprosy, is a chronic disease that can lead to physical impairment. Today it exists in over 100 countries, and while the infection is treatable, access to ...

Ancient pathogen genomes from old bones: a team of scientists from Germany and Argentina have reconstructed two genomes of ...

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By analyzing ancient DNA, scientists determined when, where and how our ancestors got sick from infectious diseases.

In the mid-1990s, my then-husband passed away from complications of HIV/AIDS. From the time he was diagnosed until he died, all of us, friends and family, but most of all, him, knew how it would end.

An independent investigator is being sanctioned by the United States over her work scrutinizing human rights abuses in the ...