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Nigeria receives 846,000 doses of malaria vaccine
Nigeria has received 846,000 doses of a groundbreaking malaria vaccine aimed at reducing the country’s high incidence of malaria, particularly among children and other vulnerable groups. Minister of Health and
Nigeria receives mpox vaccines
Becomes first country in Africa to receive doses Donated by US government Nigeria, on Tuesday, received 10 000 doses of mpox vaccines, becoming the first country in the African region
Nigeria Receives new meningitis vaccine
Nigeria has become the first country to receive the new MenFive meningitis vaccine from the Vaccine Alliance-funded global stockpile. In a press statement by GAVI on Thursday March 7, the
Cameroon kicks off malaria vaccine rollout
Cameroon yesterday, January 22, launched the RTS,S malaria vaccine into its routine national immunization services, becoming the first country to do so outside the malaria vaccine pilot programme that was
HEWAN congratulates Pate, New GAVI CEO
The Health Writers’ Association of Nigeria (HEWAN) has congratulated Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate on his appointment as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Gavi. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance on February
At last, Africa to begin vaccination against malaria as Gavi opens applications for vaccine roll-out support
All is set for the world’s first-ever mass vaccination against malaria as the Global Alliance for Vaccine And Immunization (GAVI) opens a process for countries to apply for funding and
Nigeria to get Gavi-supported COVID-19 vaccine – Ehanire
The Federal Government says it is working with global health and research organisations developing COVID-19 vaccines to get a part of the COVAX Facility and Gavi-supported 2 billion vaccine doses
Measles cases up 300 percent in 2019, WHO says
UNICEF expresses concern More than 112,000 cases of measles already reporter this year ‘Many countries are in the midst of sizeable measles outbreaks,’ WHO says Measles cases have continued to
Orange, Gavi, Côte d’Ivoire join forces to boost child immunisation
Digital Network operator, Orange, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance are set enter into a partnership with the Côte d’Ivoire Ministry of Health to increase immunisation rates in the regions and
WHO prequalifies breakthrough vaccine for typhoid
The World Health Organization (WHO) has prequalified the first conjugate vaccine for typhoid, Bharat Biotech’s Typbar-TCV®. Typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs) are innovative products that have longer-lasting immunity than older vaccines,
Nigeria: ‘210,557 Kids Died From Pneumonia, Diarrhoea in 2015’
N Since the beginning of this year, about 750,000 Nigerian children under the age of five years died, as a new report ‘The 2015 Pneumonia and Diarrhea Progress Report: