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Ethiopia to vaccinate 2 million against cholera in Tigray region

12 June 2021

Ethiopia today officially launched a preventive oral cholera vaccination campaign targeting 2 million people aged 1 year and above in Tigray region in the north of the country to avert a potential outbreak

Over 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Angola

10 June 2021

Angola has reached the milestone of more than one million doses of COVID-19 vaccines administered after receiving the first doses from COVAX, a partnership between Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI )and WHO, which aims to ensure equitable distribution of vaccines against COVID-19, worldwide.

Nine in 10 African countries set to miss urgent COVID-19 vaccination goal

10 June 2021

As COVID-19 cases in Africa rise for the third week running and vaccines are increasingly scarce, 47 of Africa’s 54 countries—nearly 90%—are set to miss the September target of vaccinating 10% of their people unless Africa receives 225 million more doses.

Risk of COVID-19 surge threatens Africa’s health facilities

03 June 2021

As the risk of a surge in COVID-19 cases increases, African countries must urgently boost critical care capacity to prevent health facilities from being overwhelmed. This comes as vaccine shipments to the continent grind to a near halt.

Africa urgently needs 20 million second doses of COVID-19 vaccine

27 May 2021

Africa needs at least 20 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the next six weeks to get second doses to all who received a first dose within the 8—12-week interval between doses recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Over 1.2 million need health assistance in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado Province

21 May 2021

Pemba, 21 May 2021 – More than 1.2 million people urgently need health assistance in Cabo Delgado Province in northern Mozambique where recent armed attacks sparked further population displacement and deepened a protracted humanitarian crisis.

Supply bottleneck, financial challenges fuel delays in Africa’s COVID-19 vaccine rol...

20 May 2021

A blockage on supplies and financial challenges are delaying Africa’s rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and risk curtailing plans to significantly expand the continent’s rollout later this year.

Expiry date and shelf life of the AstraZeneca Covishield vaccine produced by the Ser...

17 May 2021

The WHO Regional Office for Africa wishes to provide clarification and guidance on the issue of expiry dates of COVID-19 vaccines in general, and specifically on AstraZeneca vaccine doses produced by the Serum Institute of India (SII) – referred to as Covishield, that were delivered to several African countries and have since expired

Rapid tests up Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 diagnosis

14 May 2021

Zimbabwe has upscaled the use of antigen rapid diagnostic tests to reinforce its COVID-19 response, hitting a daily rate of 4000 tests – a fourfold increase reached within just two months after the method was launched in November 2020.

Benin: promoting self-care interventions in a restrictive legal framework for aborti...

10 May 2021

Despite the country's considerable efforts towards reduction of maternal mortality, of the rate still remains high at 391 per 100,000 live births. The top causes of maternal deaths in Benin are hemorrhage, eclampsia, infection and abortion complications.

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Ethiopia to vaccinate 2 million against cholera in Tigray region

Over 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Angola

Nine in 10 African countries set to miss urgent COVID-19 vaccination goal

Risk of COVID-19 surge threatens Africa’s health facilities

Africa urgently needs 20 million second doses of COVID-19 vaccine

Over 1.2 million need health assistance in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado Province

Supply bottleneck, financial challenges fuel delays in Africa’s COVID-19 vaccine rol...

Expiry date and shelf life of the AstraZeneca Covishield vaccine produced by the Ser...

Rapid tests up Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 diagnosis

Benin: promoting self-care interventions in a restrictive legal framework for aborti...

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