Up to 1 million COVID vaccines expired in Nigeria last month
Dec. 8, 2021 Up to one million COVID-19 vaccines are estimated to have expired in Nigeria last month without being used, two sources told Reuters, one of the biggest single…
WHO lauds historic decision by Gavi to fund the first malaria vaccine
Dec. 7, 2021 The World Health Organisation (WHO) has welcomed the historic decision by the Gavi Alliance Board to invest in the first malaria vaccine programme. According to who in…
COVID shots are finally arriving but Africa can’t get them all into arms
Dec 6, 2021 When a group arrived at the Sekenani health clinic in rural Kenya for their COVID-19 vaccines recently, staff told them there were no doses left and that…
COVID-19: Britain to send 20 million more vaccine doses to developing nations
Oct 31. 2021 Britain will send 20 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to developing countries by the end of this year, in what Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tell other world…
African Union to start talks with WHO on malaria vaccine rollout
Oct 8, 2021 Africa will start talks with the World Health Organization about getting the first approved malaria vaccine to the continent as soon as possible, the African Union’s top…
U.S. shipping more coronavirus vaccines to African countries
Sept 4, 2021 The United States will ship more than 1.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to four African countries through the global COVAX distribution program on Friday, a White…
Canada to donate AstraZeneca vaccine doses to African countries under COVAX scheme
Sept. 2, 2021 Canada will donate more than 1.3 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to three African countries through the COVAX vaccine-sharing facility, GAVI said on Thursday. Nigeria, Kenya and…
EU has shipped less than 3% of planned COVID-19 shot donations – Document
July 23, 2021 EU countries have so far donated just a tiny portion of excess COVID-19 vaccines to poor nations, mostly AstraZeneca shots, less than 3% of the 160 million…
COVID-19: Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Ethiopia first to get US-donated vaccine deliveries to Africa – Gavi
July 16, 2021 Following close collaboration between the African Union (AU), African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT), COVAX and the United States Government, AU Member States are set to receive approximately…
FG receives donation of PPEs worth $8m from UNICEF
May 29, 2021 The Federal Government on Friday received eight million dollar worth of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and medical consumables from the United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) in Nigeria….