Twelve countries across different regions in Africa are set to receive 18 million doses of the first-ever malaria vaccine over the next two years. The roll out is a critical step forward in the fight against one of the leading causes of death on the continent.
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Parents of children whose deaths are linked to Indian manufactured to cough syrups in The Gambia have begun legal action against the government, an Indian pharmaceutical company as well as a medicine importer.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially declared an end to the COVID-19 global public health emergency.
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A massive police investigation is underway in The Gambia following the death of 66 children that has been linked to four brands of imported Indian cough syrup.
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The World Health Organization on Tuesday declared a new outbreak of Ebola in Uganda after local health authorities confirmed a case of the somewhat rare Sudan strain of the virus.
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The World Health Organization says a coronavirus variant found in France hasn’t become much of a threat since it was first identified in November.
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Christian and other faith leaders including the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby have joined the heads of the world’s largest health and humanitarian organisations to urge governments to choose between “vaccine nationalism or human solidarity”.
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The boss of the world’s busiest airport for international passengers has said Covid passports are the only way to restart mass foreign travel.
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With the delivery of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Ghana, the west African country becomes the first to receive coronavirus vaccines through the World Health Organisation Covax vaccine-sharing initiative.
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After earlier calling on citizens to embark on a three days of prayer to defeat what he termed ‘unnamed respiratory diseases’, Covid denying Tanzania’s president is finally acknowledging that his country has a coronavirus problem.
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