Moderna signs new deal on variant-adapted COVID-19 shots for world’s poorest
October 17, 2022 Moderna Inc has agreed to provide its new variant-adapted COVID-19 vaccine to the global scheme aiming to deliver shots to the world’s poorest people. The biotech company…
UNICEF awards $170m malaria vaccine contract to GSK
August 17, 2022 United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has awarded a contract for the first ever supply of a malaria vaccine to GSK with a value of up to 170…
Vaccine group invites African states to apply for malaria shot support
July 20, 2022 Nine months after the world’s first malaria vaccine was recommended for use, international vaccine alliance Gavi invited countries to apply for financial support to roll out the…
Nigeria’s consumer inflation at highest in more than five years
July 15, 2022 The largest sustained decline in childhood vaccinations in approximately 30 years has been recorded in official data published on Friday by the World Health Organisation and UNICEF….
Why world’s first malaria shot won’t reach millions of children who need it
July 13, 2022 After decades of work, the World Health Organization endorsed the first-ever malaria vaccine last year – a historic milestone that promised to drive back a disease that…
COVID-19: COVAX says has access to enough vaccines to protect 70%population in 91 lower income countries
May 21, 2022 …Calls for urgent action to close vaccine equity gap COVAX has access to enough COVID-19 vaccines to help protect 70% of the population in 91 lower income…
BUHARI DIRECTS HEALTH MINISTER TO SUBMIT PROGRESS REPORT ON LOCAL VACCINE PRODUCTION IN MAY
April 21, 2022 President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Abuja directed the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, to submit a progress report by the end of May 2022 on…
COVAX, African Union decline to buy more doses of Moderna’s COVID shots
April 6, 2022 COVAX, the global project to share COVID-19 vaccines, and the African Union have declined options to buy additional doses of Moderna’s shot, as developing nations struggle to…
COVAX vaccine supply outstrips demand for the first time
Feb. 23, 2022 The global project to share Covid-19 vaccines is struggling to place more than 300 million doses in the latest sign the problem with vaccinating the world is…
Poorer nations dump millions of close-to-expiry COVID-19 vaccines – UNICEF
Jan. 13, 2022 Poorer nations last month rejected more than 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the global programme COVAX, mainly due to their rapid expiry date, a…