Last week, United Republic of Tanzania surpassed the 10% (with a primary series of two doses) COVID-19 vaccination milestone, commendable progress in curbing vaccine inequity and protecting lives. Despite commencing COVID-19 vaccination after a majority of countries, Tanzania’s government and stakeholders have moved fast to ensure coverage across the vast country amidst competing health priorities. Tanzania has since received over ...

The Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD) has entered into a partnership with the African Risk Capacity (ARC), AfriCatalyst and the West African Health Organization (WAHO) to strengthen outbreak preparedness and response to high consequence infectious diseases in West Africa such as Ebola, Marburg, Lassa fever, Meningococcal meningitis, and emerging pathogens of concern. The partnership will also evaluate the capacities for ...

Last week, Niger became the latest African country to pass the 10 percent (of total population fully vaccinated) COVID-19 vaccination milestone. This is commendable progress in curbing vaccine inequity and protecting lives amidst competing health priorities and in the face of challenges. Niger started COVID-19 vaccination on 15th April 2021, upon receiving 355,000 vaccine doses from the COVAX Facility, to protect frontline ...

Ghana has officially confirmed two cases of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola, its health service said on Sunday, after two people who later died tested positive for the virus earlier this month. Tests conducted in Ghana came back positive on July 10, but the results had to be verified by a laboratory in Senegal for ...

Last week, South Sudan surpassed the 10 percent COVID-19 vaccination milestone (of total population, fully vaccinated with a primary series of two doses), a noteworthy step in the protection of lives and towards ending vaccine inequity. The South Sudan government, working together with stakeholders and partners, has made effort to sustain COVID-19 vaccination across the country despite competing health priorities ...

Pox virus illustration. ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GettyImages Oyewale Tomori, Nigerian Academy of Science There has been an outbreak of monkeypox cases in a number of countries that are not endemic for the virus. Monkeypox is caused by an orthopoxvirus that is closely related to the virus that caused smallpox. Monkeypox is an animal virus that occasionally infects humans after they ...

Vestergaard, manufacturers of PermaNet ® mosquito nets, and Goodbye Malaria, an African run initiative to eliminate malaria in Southern Africa, have partnered with the Mozambican Ministry of Health to mark World Malaria Day 2022 on 25 April 2022. The partners will be hosting a plenary session at Polana Serena, Maputo. The event provides a platform to renew the power of ...

The World Health Organization’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) announced today that a single dose of HPV vaccine – instead of the traditional two or three doses – delivers solid protection against human papillomavirus (HPV). Infection of HPV is the main cause of cervical cancer, which claimed the lives of 342,000 women in 2020, and about 90% of ...

Krasula/Shutterstock Taibat (Tai) Ibitoye, University of Reading Eating two or more servings of avocado a week may cut your risk of cardiovascular disease by 16%, according to a new study. Researchers at Harvard University analysed data from two large US studies: the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study and the Nurses’ Health Study. Between 1986 and 2016, researchers followed more than 41,000 ...

Nigeria will destroy around one million expired COVID-19 vaccines, Faisal Shuaib, head of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), said on Monday, adding his agency was working with drug regulator NAFDAC to set a date for their destruction. Nigeria’s health minister Osagie Ehanire said last week some COVID-19 doses donated by rich Western countries had a remaining shelf life ...