COVID-19 vaccine maker, BioNTech said construction of an mRNA vaccine factory to enable African nations to jump-start their own manufacturing network would start on June 23 in Rwanda. The groundbreaking.
Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was re-elected as head of the World Health Organization, WHO, for a second five-year on Tuesday. The director-general received more than two-thirds of the votes cast.
African countries objected on Tuesday to a U.S.-led proposal to reform the International Health Regulations (IHR), a move delegates say might prevent passage at the World Health Organization’s, WHO, annual.
The World Health Organization, WHO, does not believe the monkeypox outbreak outside of Africa requires mass vaccinations as measures like good hygiene and safe sexual behaviour will help control its.
Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites transmitted to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. It is, however, preventable and curable. In Nigeria, malaria has become.
The Covid-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over”, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned, despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the Omicron.
The World Health Organization, WHO, says authorities in Mozambique have declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after confirming that a child in the country’s northeastern Tete province has.
The Federal Government of Nigeria has introduced the Nigeria National Essential Diagnostics List in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Global Fund to enhance diagnostic testing in.
On the heels of its success in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi, there are strong indications that the world’s first malaria vaccine will soon be available in Nigeria and across Sub-Saharan.
Africa sees an uptick in COVID-19 infections, driven mainly by a doubling in cases reported in South Africa, the World Health Organization, WHO, said on Thursday, urging people to continue.
