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Abuja, 26 April, 2022 - Cuddling his 14-week-old daughter, who had received the scheduled childhood vaccines, Mr Aliyu Fawaz Bello, an architect and father of four residing in Abuja, said he always ensures that his…
Abuja, 26 April, 2022 - Cuddling his 14-week-old daughter, who had received the scheduled childhood vaccines, Mr Aliyu Fawaz Bello, an architect and father of four residing in Abuja, said he always ensures that his…
On Thursday, 20 April 2022, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization’s Regional Director for Africa was admitted to the Honorary Fellowship of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA). The formal ceremony that…
25 April 2022 Lilongwe – Malawi launches the second of four rounds of vaccination campaigns against wild poliovirus type 1 today. More than eleven (11) million doses will be administered to more than 2.9 million children…
RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) is the first vaccine recommended by WHO for use against a human parasitic disease of any kind. If introduced widely, it could save tens of thousands of lives each year. The Government of Malawi was…
Brazzaville/Kinshasa, 23 April 2022 – The health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo today declared an outbreak of Ebola after a case was confirmed in Mbandaka, a city in the north-western Equateur Province. This…
Abuja, 22 April, 2022 - The World Health Organization will be conducting a hybrid training in Abuja on 25 to 29 April, 2022 for health professionals emphasizing the importance of integrating the oral cholera vaccine…
Luanda – Joana Domingos had long ceased to believe the official COVID-19 information coming from national authorities in her native Angola. The mother of two had become convinced that the COVID-19 vaccine was part of…
World Health Day is observed annually on 7 April, to commemorate the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO). This year’s event is marked under the theme “Our Planet, Our Health,” and…
A measles vaccination campaign was conducted in Ethiopia from February to March 2022 in SNNP, Somali and Oromia regions targeting more than half a million children aged between 6 months to 10 years. The campaign…
Kigali – When COVID-19 cases and deaths in Rwanda began to spike in early 2022, the health authorities were determined to avoid reliving the experience of prior pandemic waves. Despite the country’s well-coordinated response, hospitals…
Kampala, 19th April 2022: - The Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Tree Adoption Uganda (TAU), joined hands to commemorate World Health Day in a tree-planting exercise, in line with the day’s…
Loyce Twikirize is 18 years old and lives in Kabale district with her parents and siblings. She received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on January 10, 2022, and the second dose on March…