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Chimpanzees are humans’ closest living relatives, sharing over 98% of our DNA. They are endangered, with fewer than 250,000 left and an annual decline of between 1.5% and 6%. This is due to habitat destruction, hunting and infectious diseases, among other threats.

What if mosquitoes could deliver not just the disease but the protection to an infection that kills hundreds of thousands of people annually?

Cambodian scientist Yeang Chheang has spent six decades fighting malaria -- even in the Khmer Rouge labour camp where his wife and baby died -- and stands tantalisingly close to fulfilling his life's work.

US president Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization is threatening funding for critical health programmes like HIV/Aids and tuberculosis in different parts of the world, including Nigeria.

Global collaboration with US researchers likely to be set back by years, including on spread of drug-resistant HIV

So-called human challenge studies see healthy people given illnesses so medics can study them.

Scientists have engineered the pests to provide enhanced immunity to the disease they transmit, according to new study.

An initially "unknown" illness affecting hundreds in the Democratic Republic of the Congo may be attributable to malaria, malnutrition and a viral infection. But investigations are ongoing.

Mysterious outbreak in Congo raises concerns as health authorities investigate potential viral infection alongside malaria.