3 May 2021 – Geneva: WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed the Government of Sweden’s announcement today to share 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine with the COVAX Facility to provide life-saving vaccines to people at risk from …
The World Health Organization says a small outbreak of the Ebola virus has been contained in an eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
According to Congo’s Ministry of Health, the outbreak inflected 12 people and killed …
ADDIS ABABA, April 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged African countries not to destroy Covid-19 vaccines that may have passed their expiry date.
Countries have been told to keep hold of them and wait for further …
Testing is under way for modified versions of COVID-19 vaccines that aim to deal with coronavirus variants.
Experts say current vaccines still seem to work against the variants and prevent the most severe forms of disease, though the evidence is …
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ABIDJAN, March 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Africa’s economic recovery could be jeopardised by a resurgence of COVID-19 infections in 2021 according to the latest Economic Update released by the African Development Bank.
In its latest forecast, AfDB projects real GDP in …
A top official at the World Health Organization said that a genetic analysis of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Guinea suggests it may have been sparked by a survivor of the devastating West Africa epidemic that ended five years ago.…
The UNFPA reported that almost 12 million women in 115 low- and medium-income countries were unable to gain access to contraception services for an average of 3.6 months during the past year due to the pandemic, resulting in 1.4 million …
The United States and other wealthy countries are standing in the way of low- and middle-income countries seeking better access to COVID-19 vaccines, health-equity advocates say.
South Africa and India have led an effort at the World Trade Organization (WTO) …