Diseases

Africa

Largely eradicated diseases at risk of returning due to budget cuts

Vaccines have saved around 150 million lives over the past 50 years, but that progress is now under threat.  Cuts to global health funding are leading to a rise in outbreaks of diseases that vaccines had nearly wiped out, the UN health agency, WHO, is warning on Thursday. In Africa’s “meningitis belt”, which spans parts of […]