Abidjan, Ivory Coast

More than a year after Cote d’Ivoire’s government signed a peace deal and formed a joint government with rebels that had held the north of the...

Tuberculosis (TB) infections in Côte d’Ivoire increased 9 percent between 2006 and 2008, and almost 10 percent of the cases were multidrug resistant,...

A third of Abidjan’s inhabitants have had no drinking water for over a month and many have taken to the streets to vent their anger. "Each time we...

The parasitic disease river blindness, once thought to have been eradicated from Côte d’Ivoire, has re-emerged in some regions following years of...

Almost a quarter of households in rural parts of Cote d'Ivoire suffer from food insecurity and malnutrition is spreading, the Food and Agriculture...

As politicians bicker in Côte d’Ivoire, children are dying from a breakdown of health care and other basic services or falling victim to violent...

When she awoke on 11 September to go to work, Valerie Amessan did not imagine that the strike by state doctors in Cote d'Ivoire was going to upend...

In Côte d’Ivoire people are being turned away from public hospitals as all state doctors have gone on strike, shutting down even minimum services in...

Diabetes patients in Cote d’Ivoire are appealing for help, as a lack of insulin in the country’s public pharmacies has put the medicine out of reach...

Rural areas in Côte d'Ivoire seem to have fallen off the map in HIV/AIDS prevention efforts, and although the HIV prevalence rates are still lower...