WHO, CDC, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance to safely re-launch mass preventive vaccination campaigns against yellow fever in Nigeria
The World Health Organisation (WHO), Centre for Disease Control (CDC), and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance will safely re-launch an accelerated series of mass preventive vaccination campaigns to protect Nigerians against…
COVID-19: Vaccine Alliance says poorer nations to get 100m extra vaccine doses by 2021
Up to 100 million additional doses of any eventual COVID-19 vaccines will be secured for delivery to poorer countries in 2021, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, announced Tuesday. The announcement doubles…
COVID-19: Over 170 countries have joined COVAX vaccine facility – WHO
More than 170 countries have joined the World Health Organisation’s COVAX facility to boost development of vaccines to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the body’s director general. “More than 170 countries…
WHO says $700 million raised so far for COVID-19 vaccines initiative for poor nations
International donors have raised $700 million – less than half the target – to purchase future coronavirus vaccines for poor countries in a global initiative to ensure eventual vaccines do…
COVID-19 PANDEMIC: VACCINE DISTRIBUTION SHOULD BE ACCESSIBLE TO ALL, NOT ON THE BASIS OF HIGHEST BIDDER – OSINBAJO
In order to effectively contain the spread of the Coronavirus disease across the globe, the deployment of the COVID-19 vaccine should be done in an equitable and affordable manner rather…
Coronavirus: Africa CDC urges all nations to join WHO’s COVAX vaccine initiative
All nations should join hands in a global effort to procure and distribute potential vaccines against the coronavirus across the globe, the head of Africa’s diseases control body said on…
Nigeria working with WHO to secure allocation, access of COVID-19 vaccines – Minister
Nigeria is working with the World Health Organisation to finalise enrollment with ACT Accelerator, a global mechanism tracking and sponsoring research organisations working on COVID-19 vaccine development. Minister of Health…
Coronavirus: All African countries have now developed lab testing capacity – WHOÂ
All African countries have now developed laboratory capacity to test for the coronavirus, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also warned that the…
Measles: 45 million children in Africa, Asia to receive immunisationÂ
Up to 45 million children in seven developing countries will be immunized against measles in a series of major vaccination campaigns to try to halt a global surge in the…
Merck says Ebola vaccine to be available at lowest access price for poor, middle income nations
Merck & Co said on Friday it expects to make licensed doses of its recently approved Ebola vaccine available in the third quarter of 2020 and price the single-dose injection at…