MILLION AFRICAN CHILDREN PROTECTED BY FIRST MALARIA VACCINE
As World Malaria Day approaches, more than 1 million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have received one or more doses of the world’s first malaria vaccine, thanks to a…
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POLIO IMMUNISATION CAMPAIGN BEGINS AFTER CASE CONFIRMED IN MALAWI
More than nine million children are to be vaccinated against polio in the first round of a mass campaign across four countries in Eastern and Southern Africa, after an outbreak…
SOUTH AFRICA’S mRNA HUB PROGRESS IS FOUNDATION FOR SELF-RELIANCE
For most of 2021, limited global vaccine supply led to huge disparities in COVID-19 vaccine access, leaving billions of people – especially in low- and middle-income countries – unprotected against…
G20 DELIVERING 15 TIMES MORE VACCINE DOSES THAN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
G20 countries have received 15 times more COVID-19 vaccine doses per capita than countries in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new analysis. The analysis, conducted by science analytics company Airfinity,…
SETTING OUT THE STEPS TO MEET WORLD COVID VACCINATION TARGETS
The World Health Organization has launched the Strategy to Achieve Global Covid-19 Vaccination by mid-2022 to help bring an end to what has become a two-track pandemic: people in poorer countries…
NIGERIA SCALES UP ITS COVID-19 VACCINATION WITH NEW FUNDING
The Government of Nigeria has received approval for a $400 million credit in additional financing from the International Development Association to provide upfront financing for safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine…
CALL FOR INCREASED PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING IN AFRICA
“We are losing too many children to diseases due to lack of vaccines, which could be manufactured in Africa,” said Vera Songwe, UN Under-Secretary-General and ECA Executive Secretary. She was…