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“Last year, we lost an average of 970 people every day. This is a catastrophically high toll,” - Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa.

... becomes fourth African country to be validated by WHO

Preliminary report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that no fewer than 1400 monkeypox cases (1392 suspected, 44 confirmed) have been cumulatively  reported this year between January and mid-May in seven African countries.

As the World Immunization Week 2022 ends today, World Health Organization (WHO) says the continent is witnessing a surge in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases over the past year.

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 the first to launch the…

More than eleven (11) million doses will be administered to more than 2.9 million children under 5 years in the four-round vaccination drive.

Malawi will on Sunday launch the first round of vaccination campaigns against wild poliovirus type 1. More than 80 million doses will be administered to more than 23 million children under 5 years in the four-round vaccination drive in five…

No fewer than 1.8 million 14-year-old girls were vaccinated in Ethiopia’s human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination campaign in nine regions of the country between 10th…

Deaths dipped for the first time since the peak of the fourth pandemic wave propelled by the Omicron variant

Baricitinib and Sotrovimaba are recommended for patients with severe or critical COVID-19 and mild or moderate COVID-19 in patients who are at high risk of hospitalization respectively.