Bob Geldof has launched his own version of the Ice Bucket Challenge in order to promote his charity single, Do They Know It’s Christmas.

The British nurse who survived Ebola has described the new Band Aid charity single as "cringeworthy".

Kiwi scientists have attracted global attention for shedding new light on how our cells switch their genes on and off - an important step to understanding disease.

Not being "out" with their homosexuality is resulting in a spike in numbers of Asians in New Zealand being infected with HIV, the NZ Aids Foundation says.

A blood-borne, tick-carried parasite, which causes serious a disease in cattle, has been identified for the first time on the West Coast.

A swine flu survivor has called for more people to be vaccinated after a study found on average 400 New Zealanders die each year from influenza.

International research with its roots in Auckland has produced a breakthrough that could yield a new type of drug treatment for tuberculosis.

At least 20 New Zealand doctors or nurses have expressed interest in travelling to West Africa to treat Ebola victims, as the Government confirms it will pay for volunteers to travel to the region.

Same studio, same month, but several new faces, most of whom were not born when the first Band Aid single was recorded three decades ago.

Parliament was hit with an Ebola scare late this afternoon just hours after a similar incident at the Herald’s head office in Auckland.

A giant pink condom has been erected in Sydney’s Hyde Park as part of a campaign to promote HIV awareness.

Auckland Hospital has devised a 91-point checklist for Ebola safety.

Green MP Steffan Browning has been stripped of one of his portfolios after he suggested homeopathy could be trialled for curing Ebola.

The chief of the WHO is blaming profit-driven companies for not finding an Ebola vaccine.

Thousands of New Zealand multiple sclerosis sufferers will gain a greater sense of normality with the funding of two revolutionary drug treatments from tomorrow.

Green MP Steffan Browning says lending his support to a call for the use of homeopathic remedies to combat the Ebola epidemic was 'probably pretty unwise'.

Passengers on an Air New Zealand plane were kept on board amid fears of a contagious virus.

Health Minister Jonathan Coleman says three people arriving in NZ from West Africa have been cleared of Ebola after temperature monitoring.

All her son wanted to do was hold her hand. But like most Ebola victims, Dr Stella Adadevoh died without a loved one to comfort them in the dreadful final hours.

Some 67,000 people could be dead from Ebola by December in just one city in Liberia, according to a new analysis of the rate at which the disease is spreading.

It took less than a week after arriving in Hawaii for me to believe I was going to die from Ebola or be wiped out by a hurricane.

The United States has tightened restrictions on travellers arriving from the West African countries gripped by an Ebola outbreak, funnelling them into five airports with extra health checks.

Cruise lines are putting strict new screening tests on passengers boarding ships around the world - including New Zealand - because of fears over Ebola.

It was supposed to be an escape to the Caribbean sunshine for a week of parties, relaxation and sipping champagne. Instead Ebola crashed the party.

The World Health Organisation bungled efforts to halt the spread of Ebola in West Africa, an internal report revealed Friday.